Effects: Effects Of The Bottleneck And The Founders Effect
Effects of the Bottleneck and the Founders effect
Cecil Smith
GS102
Grantham University Online
The bottleneck effect happens when something of a great devastation has happened, causing a great amount of people to lose their lives and leave behind very few people at the most. The bottleneck effect happens at random and can kill of a whole population and with it can also wipe out the gene pool by doing so. An example of the bottleneck effect would be something like a tsunami, or an earthquake, which will kill everybody if not all at that time.
The founder effect happens when there is a new society that has started from a few people of the original population. An example of the founder effect would be how the seals at one point had started
Cecil Smith
GS102
Grantham University Online
The bottleneck effect happens when something of a great devastation has happened, causing a great amount of people to lose their lives and leave behind very few people at the most. The bottleneck effect happens at random and can kill of a whole population and with it can also wipe out the gene pool by doing so. An example of the bottleneck effect would be something like a tsunami, or an earthquake, which will kill everybody if not all at that time.
The founder effect happens when there is a new society that has started from a few people of the original population. An example of the founder effect would be how the seals at one point had started