Genetic drift occurs whenever a random event causes a genotype to reproduce more than others in a population.
a. true
b. false
Ans: a. true
(Genetic drift, as the name implies, is the random movement of the gene pool caused by random events in which some genotypes reproduce more than expected from their phenotype.)
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