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A devastating tsunami wipes out most of the population of a frog species that lives on just one tropical island. what is the most likely outcome of this event?

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Answer is: inbreeding depression.
Inbreeding depression is the reduced biological fitness in a given population (in this case frogs) as a result of inbreeding or breeding of related individuals. This is result of population bottleneck (tsunami).
Population bottleneck is a sharp reduction in the size of a population due to environmental events.

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