Question

A wildfire comes into an area of 300 trees and destroys all but 10 of them.

Eventually, the 10 trees will reproduce and create more trees. What is this
situation an example of?
A genetic drift
B gene flow
C bottleneck

Answer 1

C, Bottleneck

Step-by-step explanation:

A bottleneck effect is defined as when "A population bottleneck or genetic bottleneck is a sharp reduction in the size of a population due to environmental events."

The forest fire is the enviornmental event in this situation, and the population was greatly reduced.