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The factor that leads to founder effect in a population is:
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The founder effect occurs when a small group of individuals separates from a larger population and establishes a new population.
Because this small group carries only a limited gene pool, the allele frequencies in the new population may differ drastically from the original population.
This change is not due to natural selection but due to chance sampling of alleles → a classic example of genetic drift.
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