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Title: Which of the following is true about genetic drift?
Post by: askal on Sep 15, 2012
Which of the following is true about genetic drift?
A. It is strongest in small populations.
B. It causes random change in allele frequencies from one direction to the next.
C. Over evolutionary time, it causes the occasional fixation of random, neutral, genetic mutations with no particular survival value.
D. A and B
E. All of the above

I think it's E


Title: Which of the following is true about genetic drift?
Post by: oates151 on Sep 15, 2012
The answer is E, all of these are technically true.


Title: Which of the following is true about genetic drift?
Post by: oatmealseo on Sep 15, 2012
The answer is E. Genetic drift refers to changes in allele frequencies due to random effects. These effects will be amplified in a smaller population.