On occasion, a stressful factor such as disease, starvation, or drought kills a large proportion of the individuals in a population, producing ____ that dramatically reduces the population size.
A) natural selection
B) artificial selection
C) a lethal mutation
D) a founder effect
E) a population bottleneck
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