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Which of the following is required to see a founder effect?

  1. Population bottleneck in which the population is reduced to a relatively small number of breeding individuals.

  2. It is not associated with genetic drift.

  3. It cannot lead to the speciation and subsequent evolution of new species.

  4. Serial founder effects have occurred when populations migrate over long distances.
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Explanation

The founder effect occurs when a population bottleneck occurs leading to an effective increase in the frequency of a previously rare allele.

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