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'''Population genetics''' is the study of [[allele]] distribution, transmission, and change in frequency within a population.
'''Population genetics''' is the study of [[allele]] distribution, transmission, and change in frequency within a population.
As a biological discipline, the foundation of population genetics is often considered to be dated to the early 1920s to early 1930s, when scientists such as J.B.S. Haldane, Sewall Wright, and R.A. Fisher applied previous work in genetic inheritance by investigators such as [[Thomas Hunt Morgan]] to quantitative models of allele behavior in populations such as the [[Hardy-Weinberg principle]]. With modern advances in [[molecular biology]], such as [[molecular cloning]], the [[polymerase chain reaction]], [[DNA fingerprinting]], and the completion of the [[human genome project]], population genetics has come to occupy a central role in biomedical research (where it has led to numerous life-saving discoveries in the past couple decades), [[evolutionary biology]], [[ecology]], and even seemingly distantly-related fields such as [[animal husbandry]], [[epidemiology]], [[paleoanthropology]], and [[archaeology]].
As a biological discipline, the foundation of population genetics is often considered to be dated to the early 1920s to early 1930s, when scientists such as J.B.S. Haldane, Sewall Wright, and R.A. Fisher applied previous work in genetic inheritance by investigators such as [[Thomas Hunt Morgan]] to quantitative models of allele behavior in populations such as the [[Hardy-Weinberg principle]]. With modern advances in [[molecular biology]], such as [[molecular cloning]], the [[polymerase chain reaction]], [[DNA fingerprinting]], and the completion of the [[human genome project]], population genetics has come to occupy a central role in biomedical research (where it has led to numerous life-saving discoveries in the past couple decades), [[ecology]], and even seemingly distantly-related fields such as [[animal husbandry]], [[epidemiology]], [[paleoanthropology]], and [[archaeology]].
==Applications==
==Applications==