A fraction of the original green frog population survives to reproduce and generate a new population. If the survivors of the original population survived by chance, then this event is an example of

A. natural selection.
B. industrial melanism.
C. gene flow.
D. genetic drift.
E. founder effect.


Answer: D. genetic drift.

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