Multiple Choice
Population bottlenecks occur when
A) a large number of genetically diverse individuals found a new population.
B) population size dramatically increases.
C) a consistently large population experiences a brief period of small size.
D) drift in consistently small populations become fixed for a single allele.
E) inbreeding is high.
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