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Genetic drift is also known as allelic drift or Sewall Wright effect. This is a mechanism of evolution accompained with the change in the frequency of an existing gene variant or allele in a population due to chance (Sampling error). The process of genetic drift takes place in all populations of non-infinite size, but the observed effects are strongest in small populations. Bottleneck effect (sharp reduction of population size by a natural disaster) and founder effect (dissociation of small group from the main population) shows the major effect on genetic drift.
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