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Genetic drift is when a population experiences a decrease in variation and population size by chance due to the bottleneck or the founders' effect.
For example, a volcanic eruption kills most of the flowers in a nearby area. This bottleneck effect reduces the variety of alleles and traits of the flowers by reducing their number.
If a person brings some flowers from a garden to a new garden (the new area must be uninhabited by the same species), this founders' effect will start a new flower population from the migrated flowers' pollen with less variation than the original population, since the person had only brought some of the flowers.
Gene flow is the movement of alleles between populations, which may make their gene pools more common.
For example, if two areas trade birds by migration, gene flow is the switch of allele frequencies in each population, so each bird population loses a few alleles but gains a few alleles.
Gene flow doesn't always involve an exchange in alleles. Gene flow can also occur when only one organism migrates from one population to another.
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When is genetic drift a major factor evolution?
When there is low gene flow
When is genetic drift a major factor to evolution?
When there is low gene flow (apex 10.1.2)
What contributes to genetic variability within a population?
natural selection nonrandom mating size of population genetic drift gene flow
What are the mechanisms of natural selection?
Basically, natural selection, genetic drift and gene flow into and out of population of organisms.
How does genetic drift affect gene frequency?
loss of alleles
When is a genetic drift a major factor of evolution?
When there is low gene flow.
What is the movement of genes into and out of a gene pool called?
Genetic Drift.
When is genetic drift a major factor evolution?
When there is low gene flow
When genetic drift a major factor of evolution?
When there is low gene flow
When is genetic drift major factor of evolution?
When there is low gene flow
What causes the allele frequencies to changes?
1. Mutation 2. Migration (Gene Flow): both immigration and emigration. 3. Genetic Drift 4. Sexual Selection (Non-random mating) 5. Natural Selection: those most fit survive to pass on their genes to the next generation.
When is genetic drift a factor in evolution?
When there is low gene flow When there is no selective pressure When there is a bottleneck
When is genetic drift a major factor in evolution?
When there is low gene flow When there is no selective pressure When there is a bottleneck
Forces that cause genetic change in a population?
That forces are natural selection, mutation, gene flow, nonrandom mating, and genetic drift.
A random change in a population's allele frequency?
Evolution is the change in allele frequency over time in a population of organisms. By mutation, genetic drift, gene flow and natural selection.
Gene frequencies in a gene pool may shift randomly and by chance This is called?
Random changes.This would be called genetic drift.
When is genetic drift a major factor to evolution?
When there is low gene flow (apex 10.1.2)
