The 30,000 elephant seals alive today are genetically very similar due to

A) artificial selection.
B) natural selection.
C) random mutation.
D) the bottleneck effect.
E) the founder effect.


D

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A) Human chorionic gonadotropin

B) Zygote

C) Chorion

D) Morula

E) Folic acid

F) Fertilization

G) Blastocyst

H) Parturition

I) Cleavage

J) Ovulation

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A. true B. false

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