Dodos were flightless birds that have been extinct for about 300 years. Imagine that biologists found two surviving dodos 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 net Day 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

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Ellen Franco

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8 May, 10:23

Dodos were flightless birds that have been extinct for about 300 years. Imagine that biologists found two surviving dodos 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 net Day 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

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Jamari Willis · Answer 1

Dodos were flightless birds that have been extinct for about 300 years. Imagine that biologists found two surviving dodos and mated this pair of birds. What would you expect of the resulting dodo population after three generations?

The maximum number of alleles present for any gene in the new population is two

Explanation:

As a result of this mating, in the third generation the maximum number of alleles present for any gene in the new population will be two.