The original population of 200 was hit by a flash flood and 100 organisms were wiped out, leaving 16 homozygous recessive out of the 100 survivors. if all individuals were equally likely to be wiped out, what was the effect of the flash flood on the population distribution/equilibrium

Genetic drift

Explanation:

Genetic drift is a change in genetic allele frequencies of a population. Bottleneck effect, caused by disasters such as in this case, causes genetic drift in a very rapid way hence reducing variability in a population. Reduced genetic variability in a small population is especially threatening because the chances of population surviving environmental changes get slimmer. This is because natural selection acts of genetic variability to get a population to adapt to changes in the environment.

i think the miocene epoch spans the time from 23 million to 12 million years ago.

answer: - few nutrients

high pressure

low temperatures

explanation: 1. few nutrients:   open-ocean zone is located way far from the land, which is the main source of the essential nutrients.2. high pressure: pressure increases by 1 atmosphere for every 10 meters increase in depth.3. ample sunlight: a large fraction of the sunlight is reflected back to the atmosphere from the sea surface. 4. varying salinity: below the thermocline, the water is isolated from the atmosphere so the salinity remains stable over the year.5. low temperatures:   the temperature of open-ocean zone ranges from a low of -2°c to an average of 17°c