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What effect do you think genetic drift would have on the genetic diversity of a population?

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Answer: Decrease

Explanation: Because the population evolves from a small number of individuals, there will be less genetic variation. In other words, there will be fewer total alleles in the population

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Genetic drift can result in the loss of rare alleles and can decrease the size of the gene pool

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