Question

Cats may possess a mutation resulting in polydactyly, a condition resulting in extra toes. Ernest Hemingway was once given a six-toed cat as a gift. That cat's descendants now live at the Ernest Hemingway home and museum on key west. More than half of the Hemingway house cats now have polydactyly.
This is a much higher frequency than in the general housecat population, making the situation an example of

• A. Mutation
• B. Natural selection
• C. The bottleneck effect
• D. The founder effect

Answer 1

The correct option is D The founder effect

Here, the cat with polydactyly is seperated from its original population and domesticated. This results in inbreeding and therefore continuation of polydactyly trait in most of cats that were born in Hemingway house.

So, the correct answer is 'The founder effect'