Certain whale species were hunted to near extinction. With a moratorium on hunting them, their population sizes have expanded. Which of the following is true?
Answer The populations may still be endangered because they may have little remaining genetic variation.
The reduction in genetic variation that results from a bottleneck puts the population in danger of extinction even after the size of the population increases topre-bottleneck numbers.
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