A small population isolated at the edge of a species’ geographic distribution may experience ____ and genetic drift,

which may lead to the evolution of distinctive traits by ____.



a. population bottlenecks; artificial selection
b. a founder effect; natural selection
c. gene flow; natural selection
d. natural selection; population bottlenecks
e. population bottlenecks; founder effects


ANSWER: b

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