In the 1800s humans hunted elephant seals in the arctic. At one point, the wild
population of seals was reduced to only 20 individuals, greatly reducing the gene
pool.
As elephant seals have reproduced and recovered from danger, this sudden
shrinkage of the gene pool would be classified as __
O A catastrophic event
O A bottleneck event
A mutation event
The founder's effect

A bottleneck event.

Explanation:

A population bottleneck is an event that drastically reduces the size of a population. The bottleneck may be caused by various events, such as an environmental disaster, the hunting of a species to the point of extinction, or habitat destruction that results in the deaths of organisms.

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Explanation:

Wetlands provide many societal benefits: food and habitat for fish and wildlife, including threatened and endangered species; water quality improvement; flood storage; shoreline erosion control; economically beneficial natural products for human use; and opportunities for recreation, education, and research