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What is founder effect?

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When a small group of people, (called founders), leave their homes to find a new settlement, the population in a new settlement may have different genotype frequencies from that of the parent population. Formation of a different genotype in new settlement is called the founder effect.
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  5. Migration may enhance or blurr the effects of selection. Comment.

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  6. Name the law that states that the sum of allelic frequencies in a popu...

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  7. Differentiate between Homo habilis and Homo erectus.

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  8. Define the terms : a) Gene Flow b) Genetic drift.

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  9. Explain the origin of simple organic compounds on the primitive earth.

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  10. Explain the following two components of Darwin's theory of natural sel...

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  15. Name the main stages in human evolution in order of their appearance.

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  17. Name the curvatures in the human spine. Give their advantage.

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