After surviving a bottleneck, a population recovers to the point where it consists of as many individuals as it did prior to the bottleneck. Which statement is most likely to apply to this population?

The post$-$bottleneck population exhibits less genetic variation than the pre$-$bottleneck population.

The post$-$bottleneck population has less of a chance of going extinct than did the prebottleneck population.

The post$-$bottleneck population exhibits more genetic variation than the pre$-$bottleneck population.