When a Natural Disaster Kills Off a Large Proportion of the Population

question 41

Multiple Choice

When a natural disaster kills off a large proportion of the population, resulting in a severe reduction in the gene pool, it is called

• A) natural selection.
• B) bottleneck effect.
• C) founder effect.
• D) gene flow.
• E) directional selection.

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