Bottle neck effect

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If the population regains its original size then the member of small population might have diverged genetically from the original parental population. Therefore interbreeding between members of small and larger population might not be possible. The small population might encompass evolved to a new species. This kind of genetic drift is termed as bottle neck effect.

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