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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.
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∙ 12y agoSpecies that lack a diverse gene pool are less able to adapt to changes in the environment and are less able to survive diseases.
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What occurs when mixing genes of gene pools?
This produces a diverse population of unique individuals.
Which technology allows strands of DNA to be transferred from the cells of one species into the cells of another species?
gene splicing
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.
What is the largest unit in which gene flow can occur?
A species
The gene pool for a particular gene is?
a gene pool is the mixture of a group of a species' genes. like, if you took all of the DNA of a group of people, and mixed it all together, that would be a gene poolThe total of all alleles present in a population.All of the alleles in one population
How does having a diverse gene pool help a specie survive?
Species that lack a diverse gene pool are less able to adapt to changes in the environment and are less able to survive diseases.
Why species with a diverse gene pool are usually less threatened by environmental change than are species whose members all have similar genes?
A species with a diverse gene pool are less threatened by environmental change because at least one form of the species would probably be able to adapt better than another form which would probably die out. while a species without a diverse gene pool could possibly die out if it was unable to adapt to the environmental change.
Why is a genetically diverse population more like to survive a change to the environment?
they are more likely to have individuals with an adaption
What is meat by extinction of animals?
Extinction of any species is caused by either the complete loss of all indivduals of the species, by the inability of the remaining individuals to successfully reproduce or by a reduced genepool that is not diverse enough for the species to survive long term or outside of controlled captivity. While some species have been brought back from the brink of extinction most of these species will not survive long term due to a diminished gene pool that cannot adapt to change. (logged out during edit again).
Explain why species with a diverse gene pool are usually less threatened by enviormental change than are species whose members all have similar genes?
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What is the connection between genetic diversity small gene pools and extinction?
The assumption is that a diverse gene pool insulates a species from extinction because, with so many more individuals there is a greater chance that some will survive or adapt if the environment changes or there is an epidemic. Smaller gene pools especially those of highly adapted animals (ones that eat only bamboo or eucalyptus leaves as examples) are more subject to extinction due to changes that eliminate their food source. Likewise, a pandemic may kill so many individuals that the species cannot recover.
What is meant by fitness in Darwinian evoultion?
Darwinian fitness measures the reproductive success of a species. This measures how much of a contribution a specific individual contributes to their species' gene pool, and whether certain gene mutations within an individual will or will not have an overall effect on the gene pool of a species as a whole.
What is ecological coevolution?
the series of adaptations and counter-adaptations that causes gene frequencies to change even without gene exchange; the interdependent evolution of two or more species having an obvious ecological relationship, often restricted to cases in which the interactions are beneficial to both species but also used for any evolutionary interaction between species having some degree of interdependence, such as a parasite and its host; the simultaneous evolution of interacting populations.
What is homeobox gene?
A homeobox gene controls the development of a specific structure in an organism. These gene sequences are found in many species (from flies to humans) and can indicate a very distant common ancestor, since one ancient species might have passed on one homebox gene to two separates species.
What is home-box gene?
A homeobox gene controls the development of a specific structure in an organism. These gene sequences are found in many species (from flies to humans) and can indicate a very distant common ancestor, since one ancient species might have passed on one homebox gene to two separates species.
What occurs when mixing genes of gene pools?
This produces a diverse population of unique individuals.
Which technology allows strands of DNA to be transferred from the cells of one species into the cells of another species?
gene splicing
