| Front | Why is the sickle-cell anaemia allele still kept in certain populations, like in central Africa? |
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| Back | Heterozygous carriers of sickle-cell anaemia are resistant to the malaria, so malaria is a selection pressure that increases the value of the sickle-cell anaemia allele. |
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