The cj bacteria in the chickens at monita farms have a high frequency of the allele that causes fq resistance. If genetic drift

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was the cause, would this allele also be in bacteria at the original farm?

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cestrela7 [59] · Answer 1 · 2023-09-22T16:10:14+03:00

If the process of genetic drift was the cause of this phenomenon, then the resistance allele was also present in the original farm.

<h3>What is genetic drift?</h3>

Genetic drift is a genetic phenomenon that occurs when one allele is fixed in a population due to random chance.

Genetic drift is converse to natural selection, where an allele increases this frequency due to evolutionary constraints.

Genetic drift is well known to be the cause of allele fixation by founder population effects.

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