What is the bottleneck effect?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: C. A drastic reduction in population size that reduces genetic diversity
- Step 1: After a bottleneck, the surviving population may have different allele frequencies by chance.
Answer
A drastic reduction in population size that reduces genetic diversity.
Why not the others: Gene flow is the movement of alleles.
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