What Is Life? 2nd Edition by Jay Phelan

Exercise 16

When a group of individuals colonizes a new habitat, the event is likely to be an evolutionary event, because:
A) members of a small population have reduced rates of mating.
B) gene flow increases.
C) mutations are more common in novel environments.
D) new environments tend to be inhospitable, reducing survival there.
E) small founding populations are rarely genetically representative of the initial population.