Asked by Chuck Bass

Genetic drift would most likely occur in which of the following populations?

a greenhouse of snapdragons

an orchard with thousands of orange trees

a pea plant farm

a petting zoo with a dozen pygmy goats

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
A petting zoo with a dozen pygmy goats.

Genetic drift is strongest in small populations, where random sampling error can cause allele frequencies to change markedly from one generation to the next. A dozen goats is a small population compared with the other options.