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The term "founder effect" refers to the observation that when a small group of individuals breaks off from a larger population and establishes a new population, chance plays a large role in determining which alleles are represented in the...
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According to the Hardy-Weinberg principle, a population in equilibrium will maintain the same allele frequency over many generations. For this to occur, however, several conditions must be met. One of these conditions is that no immigration or...
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In population genetics, the founder effect refers to the loss of genetic variation when a new colony is established by a very small number of individuals from a larger population. It was first fully outlined by Ernst Mayr in 1952, using existing...


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The Scientist
The Founder Effect
10/01/2006: 316 words, approx. 1 pages
Conventional wisdom holds that founders of companies make poor managers. Now a new study of 2,327 large US public corporations finds that retaining the founders may significantly benefit the company's bottom Une. An imaginary stock portfolio of the 361 founder-led firms in the study...
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The American Biology Teacher
Teaching evolution through the founder effect: A standards-based activity
09/01/2003: 1,134 words, approx. 4 pages
Unfortunately, there has long been persistent public resistance to the teaching of evolution in the United States. We feel that this is partially because evolution is a relatively abstract concept, making evolutionary mechanisms nearly incomprehensible to the general public. Thus, we need more ways...
 


 

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