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9. When a sudden change in the environment, such as a flood or fire, reduces the size of a population, thesurvivors' collective gene pool will be only a limited representation of what was present before the disaster. Thisphenomenon is called the:A) Hardy-Weinberg effect.B) the founder effect.C) bottleneck effect.D) culling effect.E) genetic load.
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