Why Doesn't Inbreeding Depression, by Itself, Cause Evolution

question 22

Multiple Choice

Why doesn't inbreeding depression, by itself, cause evolution?

• A) It decreases the population's average fitness.
• B) It limits gene flow.
• C) It does not change the population's allele frequencies.
• D) It increases homozygosity.
• E) It violates the Hardy-Weinberg assumptions.

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