Question

Through genetic drift, a selectively-neutral mutation coding for green eyes in snowshoe hare is eventually found in 10% of Maine's hare population. In the next decade, which is most likely:

Answer 1

In the next decade, the gene coding for green eyes in hares may have increased in proportion in the hare population, it may have decreased, or it may have been completely eliminated from the population. This will happen completely randomly.

We can arrive at this answer because:

• Genetic drift is an evolutionary mechanism that can act together with natural selection.
• While natural selection allows the most adapted genes to be passed on to the next generation, genetic drift does not have a criterion, and genes are passed through generations in a completely random way.
• Thus, according to the genetic drift, the next generations can receive the adaptive gene in greater quantity, smaller quantity, or not receive, causing a trait to be removed from the population in a completely random way.

Therefore, we can say that it is not possible, through genetic drift, to know what will happen to the green-eyed genes in hares, as they can increase, decrease or disappear from the population.

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