In the Pleistocene period 10,000 years ago, there was a remarkable extinction of vertebrates in many continents, which may explain why the cheetah has famously low levels of genetic variation. Which evolutionary mechanism does this reflect?

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thomaster · Answer

That would be a population bottleneck.
This occurs when a population is reduced to near extinction which reduces the genetic variation because only a small amount of the population is left.

tesa12345 · Answer

the answer is b.