Genetic diversity

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Low genetic diversity

Limits populations ability to adapt to changing environmental conditions, making them vulnerable to extinction

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High genetic diversity

allows population to adapt to changing environmental conditions, increasing survival rates

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Cause of low genetic diversity

small population, bottleneck and founder effects

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Cause of high genetic diversity

Larger population, mutations and gene flow

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Selective breeding

process where parents are deliberately chosen to breed by humans on the basis of particular phenotypic characteristics that they display, human intervention