Imagine that a new population of humans is established on a new planet from ten randomly selected people in your genetics class (five males and five females). Over thousands of years, the descendants of those ten people reproduce and prosper, but do not reflect well the diversity of humans on Earth. This change in the diversity of people on the new planet is an example of

a) inbreeding

b) assortative mating

c) the founder effect

d) the bottleneck effect

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Biology

Amina Lowe

28 December, 12:51

Imagine that a new population of humans is established on a new planet from ten randomly selected people in your genetics class (five males and five females). Over thousands of years, the descendants of those ten people reproduce and prosper, but do not reflect well the diversity of humans on Earth. This change in the diversity of people on the new planet is an example of

a) inbreeding

b) assortative mating

c) the founder effect

d) the bottleneck effect

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Kason · Answer 1

Founder effect.

Explanation:

Founder effect is a case of genetic loss due to an event in which a small subset of individuals of a population becomes isolated from a larger population. As the problem states, this population will never represent the diversity existing in the original larger population, and without the opportunity to interbred with a different population, this group will become distinct.

One of the reported outcomes of the founder effect is the explanation of the higher prevalence of some genetic disorders in specific populations.