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Handout
Palomar Community College District

Palomar College: Genetic Drift and Founder Effect

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Palomar College discusses the concepts of genetic drift and founder effect. Provides some specific examples of the founder effect and a discussion of these.
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Handout
Nature Research

Scitable: Population and Quantitative Genetics

For Students 9th - 10th
Do you know the difference between population genetics and quantitative genetics? This webpage examines both population genetics which concentrates on frequencies of alleles and genotypes and quantitative genetics which deals with the...
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Other

Conservation Ecology: Assessing Extinction Risk

For Students 9th - 10th
This site discusses how genetic variability is correlated with the risk of organism extinction. It also discusses how bottlenecks can reduce genetic variability in populations leading to extinctions.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Forces of Evolution

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes three of the four forces of evolution: mutation, gene flow, and genetic drift.
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BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Genetic Drift vs. Gene Flow vs. Natural Selection

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what genetic drift, gene flow, and natural selection are, and compares their differences, two at a time.