Imagine a moose in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming is wandering around in a field of flowers. As it walks, it crushes and kills several flowers that turn out to be the last of their kind, causing that species of flower to go extinct. What is this an example of?

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This is an example of genetic drift, which is a random change in allele frequencies in a population. The moose's accidental destruction of the last flowers of a species is a random event leading to the extinction of that species.

Imagine a Moose in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming Is