When a Population Reaches Fixation

question 40

Multiple Choice

When a population reaches fixation,

• A) disequilibrium has occurred.
• B) it has lost one of the two alleles that code for a character.
• C) the mean value of a correlated character has changed.
• D) mutation has added new variation to the population.

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Definitions:

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