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    Challenges→Gene-D, defined by molecular sequence, is indeterminate with respect to phenotype.

    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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    Allelic variation(as used in genetics)
    The differences between different versions of the same gene in a population (for example, genes for blue eyes versus brown eyes).
    Gene-D(Moss (2003))
    An epigenesist gene concept defined by its molecular sequence, serving as a developmental resource that provides a template for RNA and protein synthesis but is indeterminate with respect to phenotype.
    Indeterminate(Reichenbach's three-valued quantum logic)
    The value of propositions that quantum theory implies cannot be assessed to be either true or false
    Population genetics(as used in biology and philosophy of science)
    The scientific study of how gene versions (alleles) spread through groups of organisms and change over time.
    Trait distributions

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    (as used in genetics and statistics)
    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

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