How does gene flow introduce novel genetic variants into populations?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: When an individual or gamete from one population enters another population and
introduces novel alleles, the allele and genotypic frequencies may be shifted away from the
values predicted by the Hardy-Weinberg model. That is, Hardy-Weinberg assumes
populations are closed to migration, whereas gene flow introduces new alleles into a
population.
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