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what is population bottleneck?

ToniXD

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what is population bottleneck?

what is population bottleneck?

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You may be talking about a "bottleneck population." That refers to a situation in which a population's size becomes very small, so that random changes in gene frequencies have a big effect on the gene pool.

The whooping crane, whose numbers in the wild decreased to less than 30 before increasing again, was considered to be going through a "bottleneck."

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