Answer:
B. Bald eagles are hunted until near extinction, population recovers
Explanation:
A bottleneck effect can arise when the population of a species is drastically reduced by an occurrence. Human activities plays a major role in regard to creating a bottleneck effect in our present day. Human activities such as overhunting result into bottleneck effect. When overhunting reduces the population of a particular species, the few individuals left would have a reduced genetic variation which is not representative of the original population. The few individuals left further reproduces individuals of their kind carrying a genetic composition that is different from the original gene composition of the old population.
The case of the hunting of bald eagles until near extinction before they begin to recover is a perfect case of the bottleneck effect. Only a small proportion of the eagles original population survives. Generic variation reduces. The genetic variation in the new population of the bald eagles will be different from that of the original population.
