Genetic Drift And The Founder Effect

1. Genetic Drift And The Founder Effect

2. Genetic Drift • Is the change in the relative frequency in which an allele occurs in a population due to random sampling and chance. Genetic drift causes a change in the gene pool. This is common in small, isolated populations where the gene pool is small enough that genetic drift could potentially change its makeup substantially. A result of genetic drift is genetic traits being lost from a population or that the traits getting so wide spread that it makes survival vastly more difficult and makes reproduction of those traits more difficult for the alleles involved.

3. Founder Effect =] • Is the change in the relative frequency in which an allele occurs in a population due to random sampling and chance. Genetic drift causes a change in the gene pool. This is common in small, isolated populations where the gene pool is small enough that genetic drift could potentially change its makeup substantially. A result of genetic drift is genetic traits being lost from a population or that the traits getting so wide spread that it makes survival vastly more difficult and makes reproduction of those traits more difficult for the alleles involved.