An Example of the Bottleneck Effect Having a Detrimental Impact

question 39

Multiple Choice

An example of the bottleneck effect having a detrimental impact on a species and its inability to evolve against new pathogen strains has been documented in the

• A) cheetah.
• B) white-tailed deer.
• C) Mexican cavefish.
• D) greater prairie chicken.

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Definitions:

Population Means

The average value of a characteristic in a population, representing the central tendency.

F-test

An F-test is a statistical test used to compare the variances of two populations and is based on the F-distribution.

Two Tail T-test

A statistical hypothesis test used to determine if there is a significant difference between the means of two groups, allowing for differences in both directions.

Population Means

The average value of a characteristic within a total population, providing a central tendency measure of the data set.