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________ Is when genetic drift occurs after a few small individuals have begun to live in a new area.SpeciationReproductive isolation The founder effect The bottleneck effect

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The correct option is the founder effect. This process refers to the effect of genetic drift in small populations that arrive to new habitat. This population, is only capable to grow with reproduction among themselves, which usually leads to inbreeding. Inbreeding increases the the strenght of genetic drift.

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