Multiple choice

What is founder's effect?

  1. natural disaster that randomly wipes out part of population

  2. when a population migrates to a new area

  3. when a barrier permanently separates a population into two

  4. when a group breaks off to form a new population
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Explanation

The founder effect occurs when a small group of individuals breaks off from a larger population to establish a new colony, leading to reduced genetic diversity compared to the original population.

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