Consider a population of killer whales. The gene pool of this population would only contain alleles harboring beneficial or neutral mutations, as deleterious mutations are efficiently eliminated from the gene pool of a species. FalseTrue

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Leandro Mcgee

2 February, 13:30

Consider a population of killer whales. The gene pool of this population would only contain alleles harboring beneficial or neutral mutations, as deleterious mutations are efficiently eliminated from the gene pool of a species. FalseTrue

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Isabella Stewart · Answer 1

The statement given in the question is FALSE.

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The gene pool of all populations of living organisms contain alleles that habour beneficial, harmful and neutral mutations and any of these mutations can be expressed at anytime. A mutation is said to be beneficial if it increases the ability of the organism to survive; it is described as neutral if it does not impact any change. A harmful mutation on the other hand is one that impact the living organism negatively.