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genetic drift is the result of ___________.
natural selection
a large gene pool
environmental variation
chance
Genetic drift is a mechanism of evolution that occurs due to random sampling of alleles. It is not driven by natural selection (which is based on fitness), a large gene pool (which reduces its effects), or environmental variation (which is more related to natural selection). It is simply a result of chance events, like a small group being isolated (founder effect) or a disaster reducing population size (bottleneck effect), where allele frequencies change randomly.
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