: 11 The later definition by Cavalli-Sforza & Bodmer (1971) is currently used: Genetic polymorphism is the occurrence in the same population of two or more alleles at one locus, each with appreciable frequency, where the minimum frequency is typically taken as 1%.
The financial world splits up its calendar into four quarters, each three months long. If January to March is the first quarter, April to June is the second quarter, and so on, though a company's first quarter does not have to begin in January.
A fiscal quarter is one of the four three-month periods that make up an organizationâs fiscal year. Fiscal quarter is abbreviated as Q and combined with dates to identify the specific period. For example, the fourth fiscal quarter of 2016 might be abbreviated as Q4 2016, Q4/16 or Q416. Because the fiscal years of some organizations donât correspond to the calendar year, fiscal quarters can be for various three-month periods.