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Launch ↗ Founder’s Effect Simulator
When a few individuals start a new population, they carry only a small sample of the original gene pool, so allele frequencies can shift by chance alone. Drift like this leaves small populations with less diversity and can push rare traits to high frequency. Follow allele frequencies across generations in an isolated population.
Launch InteractiveTopics covered
- Founder effect
- Genetic drift
- Allele frequencies over generations
- Population bottlenecks
- Loss of genetic diversity
- Conservation biology
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