If gene-D were genuinely indeterminate with respect to phenotype, population genetics would lack the explanatory power it demonstrably possesses in linking allelic variation to trait distributions.
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The pattern of how often different characteristics (like height or eye color) appear across a group of organisms.
explanatory power(Socratic definition)
The capacity of a defining feature to explain why instances of the thing defined have that property (e.g., why reverent people or actions are reverent).
phenotype(Dawkins 1982b: 114)
The all-important instrument of replicator preservation; the expressed traits of genes that are organized into organisms