Dodos Were Flightless Birds That Have Been Extinct for About

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Multiple Choice

Dodos were flightless birds that have been extinct for about 300 years. Imagine that biologists found two surviving dodos on present-day Earth and mated this pair of birds. What would you expect of the resulting dodo population?

• A)The maximum number of alleles present for any gene in the new population is two.
• B)Certain neutral mutations in this dodo population could become fixed, given the small population size.
• C)Adaptations will occur in this population as a result of genetic drift.
• D)Due to a population bottleneck, the frequency of alleles in this new dodo population may be very different from the frequencies expected in larger (now nonexistent)populations.

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