Conservation Genetics
What happens when the environment favors one over another?
Natural selection
Where did the blight originate from?
Asian chestnut trees
How did scientists plan to increase genetic diversity in pink pigeons?
By mating captive pink pigeons with wild ones
What was the name of the last Pinta turtle?
Lonesome George
What is the only source of new genetic variation in a population?
Mutation
Why couldn’t conservationists remove the threat?
Resistant strains keeps showing up
How many white rhinos are left?
3
2 as of 2018
What method did they use to fully eradicate the goats from Galapagos Islands?
Sterilized Judas goats
What happens when allele frequency changes randomly from generation to generation?
Genetic drift
What was the solution scientists came up with to save the American chestnut?
Crossbreeding and backcrossing
Where were the mountain lions that mated with the Florida panthers transferred from?
Texas
How did Pinta tortoise DNA appear on an island that is not Pinta?
Whalers or pirates
What happens when adding new genes lowers the fitness of the offspring?
Outbreeding depression
What gene did Powell and his colleagues insert into the chestnut cells?
The wheat gene
What was the name of the disease the pink pigeons were threatened by?
Trichomonosis
What is the scientific name of the fly that was affecting the Darwin finches?
Philornis downsi