Use This Information to Answer the Following Questions

question 18

Multiple Choice

Use this information to answer the following questions.
You are studying three populations of birds. Population A has ten birds, of which one is brown (a recessive trait) and nine are red. Population B has 100 birds, of which ten are brown. Population C has 30 birds, and three of them are brown.
-In which population would it be least likely that an accident would significantly alter the frequency of the brown allele?

• A) population A
• B) population B
• C) population C
• D) They are all the same.
• E) It is impossible to tell from the information given.

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Definitions:

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