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the proportion of alleles present in a gene pool is called the ______ and is an important tool in measuring evolutionary changes.
○ allele frequency
○ trait percentage
○ adaptive allele percentage
○ adaptive frequency
○ evolutionary frequency
The term referring to the proportion of alleles in a gene pool, used to measure evolutionary changes, is allele frequency. Other options do not match this definition: trait percentage refers to observable traits, adaptive allele percentage/frequency focus on adaptive alleles specifically, and evolutionary frequency is not a standard term for this concept.
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allele frequency