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Which of the following is an example of the bottleneck effect?
A. A severe flood kills 98% of a successful cricket population leaving only a very small percentage to rebuild the population.
B. Female peacocks only select males with the most impressive plumes.
C. White peppered mothers are favored and black moths are selected aginst.
D. Seagulls easily move between two different island populations.
E. A small group of frogs moves to an open pond in another ecosystem to start a new population.


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Answer:

A. A severe flood kills 98% of a successful cricket population leaving only a very small percentage to rebuild the population.

Explanation:

A population bottleneck or genetic bottleneck is a sharp reduction in the size of a population due to environmental events such as famines, earthquakes, floods, fires, disease, and droughts or human activities such as specicide and human population planning.