Q: What effect occurs when a population suddenly gets much smaller, due to natural disaster or other cause?


Read this paragraph and choose the correct option from the provided answers:

Bottleneck effect occurs when a population suddenly gets much smaller. This might happen because of a natural disaster such as a forest fire. By chance, allele frequencies of the survivors may be different from those of the original population.

 Choices:

- convergence effect

- limitation effect

- extinction effect

- bottleneck effect


A:
bottleneck effect