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Genetic drift has reduced the polymorphism of the cheetah population. The cheetahs probably underwent a "genetic bottleneck" a few thousand years ago, when the population was reduced to just a few individuals. Then as they reproduced, all surviving cheetah offspring were closely related.
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∙ 9y agoIn many ways. But the most conspicuous way in which natural selection has affected cheetas is that it has driven them to become predators capable of short but tremendous bursts of speed. Likely this is due to a kind of 'arms race' with their main prey, antelopes, which have likewise evolved to be able to evade their predators.
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How does Evolutionary Trends affect Natural Selection?
Adaptation for stronger shells.
What happens to unnecessary traits during the process of natural selection?
How does natural selection affect undesirable traits?
Why does natural selection not directly affect genes?
Natural selection acts on the way organisms interact with one another and with their environment. The genes of organisms are not usually themselves involved in this interaction: they direct it through intermediaries such as proteins. So natural selection must work through these intermediaries to affect genes.
Explain one factor that affect survival and natural selection?
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What process in which organisims with traits well suited to an environment are more likely to survive and to produce offspring is?
natural selection
How does selection affect natural selection?
Organisms are affected by Natural Selection because Inherited characteristics affected the likelihood of an organism's survival and reproduction.
Which does natural Which does natural selection affect?
natural selection is basiclly only the strong survive which means it effects the weak by killing them but bernifits the strong
How could natural selection affect the songs that birds sing?
Through ongoing natural selection a population adapts to its enviroment
How does natural selection affect survival?
Natural selection is the process which determines the shark's evolution. It is humankind that is threatening the sharks' survival.
Which does natural selection affect populations or individuals?
Populations evolve, but individuals are selected. Natural selection affects individual organisms.
Why is it hard for natural selection to stop the declin of the cheetah population?
No genetic variation in the cheetah population gene pool, so natural selection has nothing to select from and the inbreeding depression keeps deleterious traits breeding true among cheetahs and natural selection can not eliminate them from the gene pool.
Does natural selection affect individuals populations or both?
Both
Does natural selection affect the survival of an individual or a species?
species
What other theories are there except for natural selection?
Evolution by natural selection is currently the only viable theory explaining the diversity of life. However, the mechanism of natural selection is not the only mechanism to affect evolution. There are phenomena such as genetic drift, biased gene conversion, intragenomic conflict, and so on, that aren't exactly the same as natural selection (although they are all intertwined and all affect one another), but do affect the direction of evolution.
How do humans affect artificial selection?
Humans directly affect artificial selection. They do this by selecting the specific traits that they prefer which they cannot don in a natural selection.
What are the three ways natural selection can affect the distribution of phenotype?
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How does Evolutionary Trends affect Natural Selection?
Adaptation for stronger shells.
