Question

Explain how a bottleneck event can enrich recessive traits in the genetics of a population.

Answer 1

Answer:

A bottleneck event severely reduces the fraction of a species able to pass on their genes to offspring. Any once rare recessive traits present in the surviving breeding population are passed to a larger fraction of the total population of offspring, thereby enriching those recessive traits in the total gene pool.

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