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What is the name of genetic drift?


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Genetic drift:

  1. Genetic drift is a mechanism by which evolution develops over generations due to change in allele frequencies of a population that occurs by chance.
  2. Genetic drift is an evolutionary mechanism in which a population's allele frequencies shift over generations due to chance(sampling error).
  3. Genetic drift occurs in all non-infinite populations.
  4. Genetic drift describes a population's random variations in the number of gene variants.
  5. Genetic sampling error or Sewall Wright effect is another name for genetic drift.

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