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Describe founder effect.

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(i) Change in allele frequency 

(ii)  New genes develop, old genes are lost

(iii) Migration

(iv) Drift

(v) New species

When section of population gets separated due to migration or genetic drift, gene frequencies changed ; sometimes this change in allele frequency is different in the new population so that they becomes new species, this is called founder effect.



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