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Which condition is a population that descended from a small number of common ancestors more likely to have

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Due to Mendelian inheritance, populations with only a small number of common ancestors are most likely to inherit any recessive conditions with a substantial allele frequency in the population.
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Evolution theory and more precisely common descent state that all species have descended from a common ancestor ;p
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