of the following tends to increase the effective size of a p

of the following tends to increase the effective size of a population? Check all that apply: Increasing the census population size An unbalanced sex ratio Random mating

Solution

Effective population size is the number of individuals that an ideal population should have

Increasing the census population size will directly increase the effective population as the number of people undergoing mating will increase. Even random mating will increase the effective population size producing more no. Of offsprings.

Unbalanced sex ratio will decrease effective population as there should be 1:1 ratio of sex for reproduction so an change would decrease it