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If migrants form a specified fraction of a population's allele pool, the post-migration allele frequency is a weighted average of resident and migrant frequencies.
ModelBiologyRecurrent mutation and purifying selectionRecurrent mutation can replenish a deleterious allele that purifying selection removes.
ApproximationBiologyNeutral fixation and substitution rateIn the ideal neutral diploid population, a new single-copy allele has eventual fixation probability 1/(2N).
ModelBiologyMolecular divergence, calibration and clock limitsUnder equal constant lineage-specific substitution rates, the expected substitutions separating two descendant lineages accumulate over both branches since their common ancestor.
ModelChemistryCoordination geometry and chiralityCoordination compounds can share composition while differing in ligand connectivity or spatial arrangement.
DefinitionChemistryMetal valence-electron counting and the 18-electron heuristicNeutral-fragment and oxidation-state counting consistently allocate ligand and metal electrons when their conventions are used throughout.
MethodChemistryLigand substitution, lability and thermodynamic stabilityDissociative ligand substitution loses a ligand before addition, while an associative route adds an incoming ligand before loss.
ModelChemistryCovalent ligand fields and metal–ligand π interactionsLigand-field MO models combine metal and ligand orbitals with compatible symmetry, adding covalent interactions beyond a point-charge crystal field.
ModelChemistryIonic hydrides and hydrogen-compound acid/base characterHydrogen in an ionic hydride is formally H− and can act as a strong base or reducing species; proton transfer with water produces hydrogen gas and hydroxide.
ModelChemistryBoron Lewis acidity and silicon–oxygen frameworksBoron trihalides have trigonal-planar molecular reference structures and can accept donor electron pairs; BF3 and fluoride form BF4−.
ModelChemistryNitrogen oxides, electron parity and equilibriumNitrogen forms oxides with several formal oxidation states.
ModelChemistryPhosphorus oxides, halides and phase-dependent structurePhosphorus(III) and phosphorus(V) oxides have different oxygen content and formal oxidation states.
ModelChemistryOxygen species and sulfur redox breadthOxide O²−, peroxide O₂²− and superoxide O₂− contain different numbers and arrangements of oxygen atoms and electrons.
ModelChemistryHalogen redox and limits of noble-gas inertnessHalogens and halides have distinct oxidizing and reducing roles; for example, chlorine can oxidize bromide under suitable solution conditions.
ModelChemistryHydroboration–oxidation and stereochemical complementarityIn the elementary alkene hydroboration model, C–H and C–B bonds form together from the same face without a free carbocation intermediate.
ModelChemistryAlkyne hydration and enol-to-carbonyl conversionAdding hydration equivalents to an alkyne initially produces an enol, which can tautomerize to a carbonyl compound.
ModelChemistryActivated aromatic addition–elimination substitutionA nucleophile can add to an activated aryl system, forming an anionic intermediate before leaving-group elimination restores aromaticity.
ModelChemistryAmine protonation and nitrogen lone-pair availabilityAn amine's basicity can be described by the acidity of its conjugate ammonium species under specified conditions.
ModelChemistryActive-centre chain-growth polymerizationIn chain-growth polymerization, monomer addition regenerates a growing active centre.
ModelChemistryFunctional-group step-growth polymerizationStep-growth polymerization joins compatible functional groups on monomers and oligomers rather than requiring all growth at one persistent chain centre.
ModelChemistry · BiologySingle-site binding, free ligand and affinityFor a reversible one-to-one receptor/ligand interaction at equilibrium, the dissociation constant relates free receptor, free ligand and complex concentrations.
ModelChemistry · BiologyAllosteric coupling and cooperative bindingLigand binding at one site can alter affinity or activity at another through coupling of protein states.
ModelChemistryCoulometry and reaction-specific charge accountingCoulometry infers reacting amount from integrated charge and electron stoichiometry.
MethodChemistryVoltammetry, transport and electrode-current evidenceVoltammetry records current while controlling the working-electrode potential relative to a reference; a counter electrode carries the balancing current.
MethodChemistryFluorescence yield and analytical linearityFluorescence emission follows optical excitation while competing with nonradiative relaxation.
MethodBiologyEvidence for organelle endosymbiotic ancestryMitochondrial and plastid ancestry is supported by bacterial affinities in molecular machinery and genes, organelle reproduction and transfer of many organelle-derived genes into nuclear genomes.
ModelBiologyBryophyte gametophytes and dependent sporophytesMosses, liverworts and hornworts illustrate gametophyte-dominant land-plant life cycles.
ModelBiologySeedless vascular plants and alternation of generationsLycophytes and fern-related lineages have vascular sporophytes and life cycles that produce gametophytes through spores.
ModelBiologyAncestral polymorphism and gene/species-tree disagreementGene lineages need not coalesce at a population or species split.
ModelBiologyPhylogenetic covariance and comparative trait methodsSpecies traits can be correlated because related lineages share evolutionary history.
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