EVOLUTION
EVOLUTION OF A POPULATION
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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the Hardy-Weinberg principle
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the founder effect
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directional selection
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the bottleneck effect
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Detailed explanation-1: -The correct answer is: The founder effect.
Detailed explanation-2: -A founder effect, as related to genetics, refers to the reduction in genomic variability that occurs when a small group of individuals becomes separated from a larger population.
Detailed explanation-3: -Founder effect – a small number of individual colonize a new habitat. The allele frequencies of the new population will reflect the alleles of the founders, not the original population they came from.
Detailed explanation-4: -The founder effect is another extreme example of drift, one that occurs when a small group of individuals breaks off from a larger population to establish a colony.
Detailed explanation-5: -The difference between founder events and population bottlenecks is the type of event that causes them. A founder event occurs when a small group of individuals is separated from the Page 3 rest of the population, whereas a bottleneck effect occurs when most of the population is destroyed.