How is drift involved in inferring historical processes? a. It is not informativ
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Question
How is drift involved in inferring historical processes?
a. It is not informative. Because it is a chance process there is no useful information.
b. The history of each mutation tells us conclusive information about when events occurred.
c. If you look at enough neutral markers, the average time to fixation is proportional to the effective population size. So, the patterns of fixation can help to indicate the historical population size.
d. Diversity today has nothing to do with historical events.
Explanation / Answer
If you look at enough neutral markers, the average time to fixation is proportional to the effective population size. So, the patterns of fixation can help to indicate the historical population size.