Genetic drift cannot eliminate a beneficial allele from a population.

a. true
b. false


Answer: b. false
(Genetic drift can cause a beneficial allele to decrease in frequency, meaning that rare beneficial alleles or weakly beneficial alleles can be lost by genetic drift.)

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