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​A Small Dutch Population Settled in South Africa in the 17th

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​A small Dutch population settled in South Africa in the 17th century and became known as Afrikaners. By chance, a few Dutch settlers carried the gene for Huntington's disease. Today, Huntington's disease occurs at a relatively high frequency in this population. This is an example of ____.


A) ​the bottleneck effect
B) ​the founder effect
C) ​gene flow
D) ​artificial selection
E) ​natural selection

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