Question

Who Came up With Genetic Drift?

Answer 1

Genetic drift

1. The term genetic drift was coined by Sewall Wright.
2. Genetic drift or allelic drift is the change in the frequency of a gene variant in a population due to random sampling.
3. It is more likely to happen in small populations. It results in the change of frequency of an allele in the isolated population.
4. It refers to the random fluctuations in allele frequencies of a population occurring by chance.
5. He was also one of the founders of population genetics.