The bottleneck effect is genetic drift that occurs when a population's size is drastically reduced, such as by a disaster.
El efecto cuello de botella es la deriva genética que ocurre cuando el tamaño de una población se reduce drásticamente, como por un desastre.
| Front | bottleneck effect |
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| Back | Genetic drift that occurs when the size of a population is reduced, as by a natural disaster or human actions. Typically, the surviving population is no longer genetically representative of the original population. |
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