Two lizard populations live on an island. One of the populations has over 100,000 individuals on the island. The other population has only about 1,000 individuals on the island. A storm passing over the island caused the deaths of about 75% of each of the lizard populations. The resulting populations then suffered from the bottleneck effect.
2. Explain which population of lizards would be more affected by the bottleneck effect
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The lizard population which has populations of 100,000
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The population which had less number of creature would be affected adversely.
Explanation:
- Bottleneck effect is one of the phenomena which occurs when the number of of a particular organism of a particular species decreases adversely in a particular generation.
- Bottleneck effect is worse when the number of creature of that particular species in a particular Habitat is already low. Hence for the second population the bottleneck effect would adversely affect their future generation.
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