If the Original Finches That Had Been Blown Over to the Galápagos

question 72

Multiple Choice

If the original finches that had been blown over to the Galápagos from South America had already been genetically different from the parental population of South American finches, even before adapting to the Galápagos, this would have been an example of

• A) genetic drift.
• B) bottleneck effect.
• C) founder effect.
• D) all three of these.
• E) both the first and third of these.

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