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When a Natural Disaster Kills Off a Large Proportion of the Population

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When a natural disaster kills off a large proportion of the population, resulting in a severe reduction in the gene pool, it is called

A) natural selection.
B) bottleneck effect.
C) founder effect.
D) gene flow.
E) directional selection.

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