Sampling error includes the phenomenon of:
A)founder principle
B)nonrandom mating
C)genetic drift
D)a and c

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Sampling error includes both the founder principle (when a small group of individuals starts a new population and their genetic makeup is not representative of the original population) and genetic drift (when random events cause changes in the frequency of alleles in a population). Nonrandom mating, while a potential source of error in genetic sampling, is not necessarily part of sampling error.

Sampling Error Includes the Phenomenon Of