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Bottleneck
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Bottleneck
A marked decrease in gene pool diversity due to a low number of genetically distinct individuals in the population, i.e., a population bred from 2 individuals has far fewer variables on the allelic loci—a bottleneck—than a second population bred from hundreds of individuals
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