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Explain why a gene pool cannot be made up of only one individual

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All the possible alleles for a gene with multiple alleles cannot be expressed by single individual

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Gene pool refers to the sum total of all the alleles of all the genes which are present in a population. Human beings are diploid organisms. One individual can have only two possible alleles for a gene. A gene can have two or more than two alleles. Since all the possible alleles for a gene with multiple alleles cannot be expressed by single individual, a gene pool cannot be made of one individual.

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