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The three ways by which evolution can take place through genetic drift.

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Genetic drift (allelic drift) can be defined as the variation in the frequency of an existing allele in a population due to an accidental sampling of organisms. Allele frequency of a population is the fraction of the copies of one gene which share a specific form.

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