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question 53

Multiple Choice

Please use the following information to answer the question(s) below.
In the year 2500, five male space colonists and five female space colonists (all unrelated to each other) settle on an uninhabited Earthlike planet in the Andromeda galaxy. The colonists and their offspring randomly mate for generations. All 10 of the original colonists had free earlobes, and 2 were heterozygous for that trait. The allele for free earlobes is dominant to the allele for attached earlobes.
-"Until the agricultural revolution 10,000 years ago, people used to live in small populations with little gene flow between them. That is the best situation for rapid evolution," said Sewall Wright, one of the founders of population genetics.This conclusion on gene flow conflicts with
Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, which states that no gene flow means

• A) natural selection.
• B) no genetic drift.
• C) no random mating.
• D) no evolution.

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