A scientist is studying the effects of a chemical she believes to be a mutagen in Drosophila. Her treatment results in a forward mutation phenotype. To understand the molecular nature of this mutation, she attempts to reverse the mutation by treating the Drosophila mutant with hydroxylamine. However, this treatment has no impact on the mutant phenotype. Among the possibilities given below, the type of forward mutation her new mutagen most likely caused is a .

1) gene flow

- it is described as the transfer of genes from one population to another population so that frequency of gene is increased.

-a zebra migrates to join a different herd of zebras.

2) natural selection

- a mechanism of evolutionary change in which individuals with advantageous traits survive and reproduce whereas the others ( those that can not adapt) eliminate from the population.

-competition for sunlight leads to taller trees.

3) mutation

- permanent change in the nucleotide sequence of dna ( genetic material) that could have harmful or useful consequences.

-the dna of a snake changes to make its venom stronger.

4) genetic drift - it is a random phenomenon ( that occurs by chance such as fire) that results in change in the gene frequency in a small population.    

-a grassfire randomly sweeps through a population of buffalo and kills most of the animals.

explanation:

most community's take hundreds of years to become stable