Which of the following factors would result in the allele frequency of a population not adding up to 1.0, as is the case in the Hardy-Weinberg rule?

A. Genetic drift
B. Inbreeding
C. A population changing due to selection
D. None of the answers, the allele frequencies must always equal 1.0


C

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