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Title: The introduction of a small population onto an island that results in a limited gene pool for a population bes?
Post by: Tontin on Oct 30, 2012
The introduction of a small population onto an island that results in a limited gene pool for a population best describes
Choose one answer.
 a. the Hardy-Weinberg law
 b. genetic drift
 c. the bottleneck effect
 d. the founder effect
 e. the effect of genetic isolation


Title: The introduction of a small population onto an island that results in a limited gene pool for a population bes?
Post by: Firedancer20 on Oct 30, 2012
the answer is d. the founder effect.

I'm taking Bio 100 right now, and on the review page it says "introducing a few members of a new species to an island could induce the founder effect"

Hope this helps!

PS. The bottle-neck effect is when there is a sharp reduction in the gene pool.