Some radioactive iodide salts of sodium, including [ 125I ]NaI and [ 131I ]NaI, have radiopharmaceutical uses, such as in the treatment of thyroid cancer and hyperthyroidism or as radiolabeling tracers in imaging (see).
Genetic drift is defined as the changing of the number of available alleles in a population by chance events. Also called allelic drift, this phenomenon is usually due to a very small gene pool or population size.
genetic drift that occurs when a few individuals become isolated from a larger population and form a new population whose gene pool composition is not reflective of the original population. bottleneck effect. genetic drift that occurs when the size of the population is reduced, as by natural disaster or human actions. Survivors are not representative of the original population relative fitness