Which Best Describes the Effect of Positive Assortative Mating in a Population

question 19

Multiple Choice

Which best describes the effect of positive assortative mating in a population?

• A) It causes natural selection.
• B) It increases homozygosity.
• C) It changes allele frequencies.
• D) It stabilizes genotype frequencies.
• E) It produces more mutations each generation.

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