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Soon after the island of Hawaii rose above the sea surface (somewhat less than 1 million years ago) and organisms colonized the island, the evolution of life on this new island should have been most strongly influenced by ________.

A) a genetic bottleneck
B) sexual selection
C) founder effects
D) habitat differentiation

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Answer:

The correct answer is C) founder effects

Step-by-step explanation:

Founder's effect occurs in the small population which is isolated from the main population geographically due to some disturbance like tsunami, earthquake, or migration.

The new population have small genetic pool than the original population because some alleles are absent in the founder population which was present in the original population.

So when a new island is made then the evolution of life on that island is most strongly influenced by founder effect because initially very few number of any species come and establish there and over the time they evolve in new species. So the correct answer is C.

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