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Founder Effect 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 pla... Read more
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Founder Effect 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... Read more