Imagine that one of the original four mice that escape from a research lab is blind due to a genetic defect. If the escaped mouse breeds and most of the mice born in subsequent generations are blind from birth, this is most likely a case of

A) selective mutation.
B) the founder effect.
C) artificial selection.
D) natural selection.
E) an equilibrium population.


B

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