General Genetics
Normal distribution is a probability distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean. This pattern creates a bell-shaped curve where most of the observations cluster around the central peak, and probabilities for values further away from the mean taper off equally in both directions. It's crucial for understanding genetic traits influenced by multiple alleles and provides a foundation for concepts like polygenic inheritance and heritability, where traits often display normal distributions due to the additive effects of many genes.
congrats on reading the definition of normal distribution. now let's actually learn it.