founder principle
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- The possibility that a new, isolated population, initiated by a small number of individuals taken from a parent population, may be genetically different from the parent population, because the founding individuals might not be typical of the parent population. See: genetic drift.
UN Food and Agriculture Organization - Cite This Source - This Definition - ecotype, Feral, Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, Introgression, meiotic drive, panmictic population, panmixis, Population, population genetics, subspecies, variant, Variation