Consider a Population with an Effective Size of 4000 and 32

question 38

Multiple Choice

Consider a population with an effective size of 4000 and 32 segregating alleles.On average,how many generations would it take for all 32 alleles to coalesce to a single,ancestral allele?

• A)32
• B)128
• C)1000
• D)16000
• E)Coalescence of all 32 alleles will never occur.

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