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An isolated population of humans with approximately equal numbers of blue-eyed and brown-eyed individuals was decimated by an earthquake. Only a few brown-eyed people remained to form the next generation. This kind of change in the gene pool is called a

A

Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium

B

Blocked gene flow

C

Bottle neck effect

D

Founder effect

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Bottle neck effect
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