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Populations with high levels of genetic diversity are likely to adapt to changes in the environment?
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True, as is the opposite
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How does genetic diversity allow a species to better survive in a changing environment?
i do not now
How does having a diverse gene pool help a species survive?
It creates genetic variation within the species allowing them to adapt to changes in their environment through the process of natural selection. Species without genetic diversity are at a greater risk for unhealthy reproduction because they will have a greater tendency to produce offspring with recessive genetic diseases.
What is true about the gene pool and genetic diversity?
A diverse community is a community populated by people from many different backgrounds; differences in background such as social, economic, religious, ethnic, or country of origin.
How do you use Gene Pool in a sentence for biology?
A large gene pool indicates extensive genetic diversity, which is associated with robust populations that can survive bouts of intense selection.
Stabilizing selection results in more or less genetic diversity?
Stabilizing selection results in less genetic diversity in a population.
What is the process that allows for genetic diversity in populations is?
Sex.
How does genetic combination help a species to survive?
It causes diversity and variation amongst a population
Why is exponential growth unable to continue forever in populations?
The population loses genetic diversity
How could cloning help save endangered animals?
Cloning may be a quick fix to increase the number of individuals. However, numbers are not everything. What is more important to small population sizes is genetic diversity, in other words the amount of genetic variation that exists within a population. Populations with significant reduction in genetic diversity will have a drastically increased likelihood of producing offspring with a recessive genetic disorder (the same reason why inbreeding in humans will likely result in some problem with the child). Besides this, genetic diversity allows populations to adapt in the event of a strong environmental change (e.g. climate change). In other words, if the environment changes, diversity makes it likely at least some of the individuals are adapted to survive.
What are the two major mechanisms by which bacterial populations generate genetic diversity?
gene exchange and mutation :)
What describes a population at great risk for genetic diversity?
The number one cause of risk to genetic diversity in populations is the size of the population. The smaller the size in an area, the less diverse genetically the population is.
How does genetic diversity allow a species to better survive in a changing environment?
i do not now
During which process do rare changes in DNA result in genetic diversity?
Mutagenesis
The two factors contributing to the diversity of species?
it is the environment. environment is the key point to effect the species' development.
What is meant by the statement Populations evolve individuals don't?
This statement refers to the fact that evolution occurs at the level of populations over generations, with changes in allele frequencies leading to evolution. It emphasizes that individual organisms do not evolve within their lifetimes, as they do not change genetically, but rather it is the population as a whole that evolves.
What rare changes in DNA result in genetic diversity?
The rare changes in DNA are called mutation ... BUT genetic diversity results from the shuffling of paired genes in normal sexual reproduction. Sex was "invented" to foil parasites, even before two different sexes were developed.
What types of population does genetic drift affect?
Isolated populations can lose genetic diversity through genetic drift. This is because some alleles can be lost by chance. Many more homozygous individuals are likely.
