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?

Answer 1

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

Explanation: Due to the very low population of dodo, the frequency of alleles in this new dodo population may be very different from the frequencies expected in larger (now non-existent) populations.