An earthquake decimates a ground-squirrel population, killing 98% of the squirrels. The surviving population happens to have broader stripes, on average, than the initial population. If broadness of stripes is genetically determined, what effect has the ground-squirrel population experienced during the earthquake? genetic drift by a founder event O directional selection gene flow O genetic drift by bottleneck effect D disruptive selection

An earthquake decimates a ground-squirrel population, killing 98% of the squirrels. The surviving population happens to have broader stripes, on average, than the initial population. If broadness of stripes is genetically determined, what effect has the ground-squirrel population experienced during the earthquake? genetic drift by a founder event O directional selection gene flow O genetic drift by bottleneck effect D disruptive selection

Concepts of Biology

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Chapter11: Evolution And Its Processes

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Problem 7RQ: In which of the following pairs do both evolutionary processes introduce new genetic variation into...

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