Budding is the predominant mode of asexual reproduction in sponge. Budding is a asexual reproduction in which a new organism develop from outgrowth or from bud due to cell division at one particular site. A small rounded outgrowth on asexually reproducing organism is cabable of developing into new individual
A genetic bottleneck also known as a population bottleneck is one that describes a sharp reduction in the size of a population caused by environmental events like in the above or caused by human activities.