A population of beetles in which some individuals are blue and some individuals are green evolves by chance because more alleles of one color are transmitted to the next generation than alleles of the other color. This mechanism of evolution is known as
A. natural selection.
B. mutation pressure.
C. genetic drift.
D. gene flow.
Answer: C
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