Evolution: Bottleneck Effect And Founder's Effect

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The first of the four forces of evolution is mutation. To me, mutation is a change in the normal genetic code. They occur a lot and can be purposeful or accidental. The second is natural selection and to me that has always gone along with survival of the fittest. So, it is changes from generations that increase survival. The third is genetic drift which is a change in genes and there are two types of this: Bottleneck Effect and Founder’s Effect. The last is gene flow which deals with migration and there needs to be reproduction to occur. A frameshift mutation is much more likely to lead to a defective protein because it produces no function of the protein and a point mutation leads to altered DNA. Since Founder’s Effect deals with such