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Question
Very short answer question.
If variation occurs in a population by chance alone and not by natural selection and brings a change in frequencies of an allele. What is it called?
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Solution
If the variation in a population occurs by chance alone and not by natural selection and brings about a change in frequencies of an allele, it is called genetic drift.
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