Misconception: In evolution, the Founder effect and the Bottleneck effect are the same thing
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The founder effect and the bottleneck effect are both a type of
genetic drift (when an allele may become more or less common in a population simply due to chance). However, the bottleneck effect occurs when the size of a population is
drastically reduced by a major event, causing the gene pool of future generations to be limited to the alleles of the survivors.
On the other hand, the founder effect occurs when members of a population leave to
colonise a new region/area. The gene pool of these founding members may be unrepresentative of the original population and could lead to the new population having drastically different allele frequencies than the population from which the members originated. Unlike in the bottleneck effect, the original gene pool may still survive in the first population, but is now isolated from the new population.
MISCONCEPTION: The coding strand is another name for the template strand of DNA.