Population bottlenecks occur when:
a. a large number of genetically diverse individuals find 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. when inbreeding is high.
C
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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
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