A population of cichlid fishes in Lake Malawi, East Africa, experiences a reduction in habitat size due to changing lake levels. This in turn reduces the number of individuals in the population

During the same generation, only 10% of the males successfully reproduce by chance. Observed genotypic frequencies in the following generation are different from the ex-pected frequencies under Hardy–Weinberg because of:
a. random events.
b. drift.
c. differential survival.
d. differential reproduction.
e. All of the above.


E

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