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Effect of carrying capacity on genetic drift

Let's investigate effect of carrying capacity on the process of genetic drift.

Set very low carrying capacity for the left region (10 % resource distribution) and very high carrying capacity for the right region ( 80 % resource distribution). In which region will you expect genetic drift to happen faster?

Questions

Please answer the questions below.

What would be outcome of the simulation? Answer this question before you run the model.

Genetic drift will happen slower in the environment with low carrying capacity.
Genetic drift will happen faster in the environment with low carrying capacity.
Genetic drift will happen at the same rate in the environment with low carrying capacity.

Explain your reasons for the prediction.

Write you observations after you run the model. Explain those observations.

Notes

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