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In a population of Beatles there are green and brown colorations that occur with equal frequency. After a forest fire, only 20 Beatles remain. 18 of them are green and two of them are brown. What describes this change in frequency’s

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C) A population bottleneck occurred, altering the resulting allele frequencies.

Step-by-step explanation:

Population bottleneck can be described as the reduction which occurs in a population due to any environmental factor like fire or due to the activities of humans like hunting etc.

A large number of Beatles got killed due to the fire. The reduced population that is left has an altered gene frequency. This phenomenon can be described as a genetic drift that has occurred and caused changes in the genetic frequencies.

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