Question 4

(Multiple Choice)

Refer to the scenario below, and then answer the following question(s).
Two European men and two Polynesian women settled on a previously uninhabited tropical island. All four of the settlers have brown eyes, a dominant trait, but one of the Europeans is heterozygous and carries the recessive gene for blue eyes.
-After several generations, 35 percent of the island population is found to have AB+ blood. This is much higher than the percentage of AB+ people in the populations from which the original settlers came. The high percentage of AB+ blood is probably due to:


A) founder effect.
B) selective mutation.
C) disruptive selection.
D) nonrandom mating.

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