After Surviving a Bottleneck,a Population Recovers to the Point Where

question 46

Multiple Choice

After surviving a bottleneck,a population recovers to the point where it consists of as many individuals as it did prior to the bottleneck.Which of the following statements is most likely to apply to this population?

• A)The postbottleneck population exhibits less genetic variation than the prebottleneck population.
• B)The bottleneck subjected the population to stabilizing selection.
• C)The postbottleneck population has less of a chance of going extinct than did the prebottleneck population.
• D)The postbottleneck population exhibits more genetic variation than the prebottleneck population.

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