Two Populations Experience Equally Severe Bottlenecks, Reducing Each to One-Tenth

question 38

Essay

Two populations experience equally severe bottlenecks, reducing each to one-tenth their original size. One population is in the bottleneck for one generation, and the other is in the bottleneck for five generations. You assess heterozygosity of both populations after they have been restored to their prebottleneck size. What do you expect to find, and why?

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