Question 16

(Multiple Choice)

Reductions in the population size of the graceful antelope, a hypothetical species, have led to inbreeding. Deleterious after-effects of that inbreeding are leading to further decreases in the population size of this species. This pattern is an example of a(n)


A) extinction vortex.
B) background extinction.
C) anthropogenic Allee effect.
D) mass extinction.

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