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Understanding effect of carrying capacity on genetic drift

Let’s investigate the effects of carrying capacity on this process of genetic drift.

Genetic drift is the process of one color surviving without having any selective advantage. How would the process of genetic drift differ at high and low carrying capacities? Make a prediction.

Questions

Please answer the questions below.

Question 6.1

Write your prediction.

Question 6.2

Design an experiment to test your prediction. Describe your experiment here.

Question 6.3

Upload a file (word/ powerpoint) of your data and analysis. Make sure that the file size is less than 2 MB.

Upload files that are less than 5MB in size.
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Question 6.4

Write your conclusions.

Notes

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