Shrews have been documented to travel across frozen lakes and establish populations on previously uninhabited islands; thus, the shrews have a limited gene pool. If this limited gene pool has allele frequencies that are very different from the allele

frequencies found in the original population, then this would be an example of:

A) natural selection. B) divergent evolution.
C) founder effect. D) population bottleneck.


Answer: C

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