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What is the difference between genetic drift and natural selection?

Genetic drift is the random increase or decrease of certain genes in a population; natural
selection is not random.

Genetic drift is the selection of random traits in a population; natural selection is the
selection of specific traits.

Genetic drift is the frequency of genes in a population; natural selectic is the frequency
of adaptations in a population.

Genetic drift is the change in a population's genes over time; natural selection is the
evolution of a population over time.

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A) Genetic drift is the random increase or decrease of genes in a population. Natural selection is not random.

Genetic drift is the change in the frequencies of alleles in a population due to chance events (random survival). Genetic drift exhibits strong effects in small populations and plays a smaller role the larger the population gets. Natural selection is the non-random change in the frequency of alleles in a population over time, because the change in frequency of the alleles is dictated by the different relative fitnesses that different alleles confer.
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