Genetic drift

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Flashcards on Genetic drift, created by misspig38 on 26/04/2013.
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genetic drift a random change in the frequency of alleles within a populations gene pool which can happen very quickly in small populations
founder effect a geographically isolated area has a non-representing sample of alleles from a parent populations
bottlenecks causes by major disaster which kills off most of the population and there is a random chance of which alleles survice so the allele frequency is altered
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