Question

In the year 2500, five male space colonists and five female space colonists (all unrelated to each other) settle on an uninhabited Earthlike planet in the Andromeda galaxy. The colonists and their offspring randomly mate for generations. All ten of the original colonists had free earlobes, and two were heterozygout for that trait. The allele for free earlobes is dominant to the allele for attached earlobes. 17. If four of the original colonists died before they produced offspring, the ratios of genotypes could be quite different in the subsequent generations. This would be an example of____________

Answer 1

I believe this is an example of Genetic Drift

Step-by-step explanation:

The Genetics of the given population is stuck in a way that causes the population to drift from one extreme into the other.