What are some properties of the founder effect?
A) Adaptive, gradual or drastic depending on the situation.
B) Nonadaptive, random
C) Adaptive, gradual
D) Nonadaptive, gradual
E) Adaptive, drastic
A founder effect occurs when a new colony is started by a few members of the original population. This small population size means that the colony may have: reduced genetic variation from the original population. a non-random sample of the genes in the original population.
