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Which significant change can occur to a small population as a result of genetic drift?

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Here is the answer, I took a test that had this question.

Which significant change can occur to a small population as a result of genetic drift-example-1
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Large changes in allele frequencies can occur in a short time - any changes in frequency, occurring as a result of random chance, would have a proportionally larger effect in a small population.
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