Question

Dodos were flightless birds that have been extinct for about 300 years. Imagine that biologists found two surviving dodos on present-day Earth and mated this pair of birds. What would you expect of the resulting dodo population after three generations?
a. Adaptations will occur in this population as a result of genetic drift.
b. The frequencies of alleles in this new dodo population may be very different from the frequencies from 1,000 years ago.
c. Random mating will ensure that closely related individuals never mate with each other
d. The maximum number of alleles present for any gene in the new population is two

Answer 1

Answer:

B. The frequencies of alleles in this new dodo population may be very different from the frequencies from 1,000 years ago.

Due to a population bottleneck, the frequency of alleles in this new dodo population may be very different from the frequencies expected in larger (now nonexistent) populations