FOUNDER EFFECT


Meaning of FOUNDER EFFECT in English

noun Date: 1970 the effect on the resulting gene pool that occurs when a new isolated population is founded by a small number of individuals possessing limited genetic variation relative to the larger population from which they have migrated

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