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In the DRIFT ONLY simulation, what happened to expected heterozygosities ( expec

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Question

In the DRIFT ONLY simulation, what happened to expected heterozygosities (expected heterozygosity = 2pq) in your 10 runs? After 25 generations, how many simulations increased and how many decreased from the initial exp. heterozygosity in generation 0? Explain.

In the DRIFT ONLY simulation, what happened to expected heterozygosities (expected heterozygosity = 2pq) in your 10 runs? After 25 generations, how many simulations increased and how many decreased from the initial exp. heterozygosity in generation 0? Explain.

Explanation / Answer

. The amount of genetic drift increases as the size of the sample used to found the next generation decreases. Another way to restate the population size assumption of Hardy