A used car is shipped from Australia to the United States. Stowed away in the trunk of the car is a piece of wood infected with Australian termites. Once in the United States, the buyer of the car finds the rotting wood and dumps it on the side of the road. The termites survive and establish a colony on the side of the road, but do not mate with local termite populations. This is an example of

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The scenario describes genetic drift, which is a change in the frequency of an existing gene variant in a population due to random sampling of organisms. The termites establish a colony without mating with local populations, leading to changes in genetic variation due to chance events.

A Used Car Is Shipped from Australia to the United