genetic diversity
Biological allelic range
Genetic diversity is the variety of genetic information within a population or species.
Greater genetic diversity improves a group's ability to adapt to environmental changes and resist disease—a population with limited diversity is more vulnerable to being wiped out by a single threat.
Conservation efforts often focus on maintaining genetic diversity: The cheetah's lack of genetic diversity makes the species fragile.
- biodiversityRange of life forms
- hybridizationMixing distinct genetic lines
- allelesVariant forms of genes
- heterozygosityPaired unlike gene variants
- speciationFormation of distinct species
mutation · DNA sequencing · habitat restoration · hybrid vigor · conservation biology · genotype · breeding · variation · endangered · rare breed · seed bank · evolution · resilience · chromosomes · extinction · traits · DNA · survival
- conservationconservation, wildlife, endangered, habitat, sanctuary
- ecologyhabitat, ecosystem, balance, niche, food webs
- evolutionevolution, natural selection, mutation, adaptation, speciation
- reproductionreproduction, birth, baby, egg, sperm
- biodiversityendemism, biodiversity hotspots, biota, fauna, flora
- geneticsDNA, allele, genotype, chromosomes, chromosome
genetic diversitymonoculture
Single-crop agricultural system
homozygosity · inbreeding · cloning · consanguinity · selective breeding
genetic diversityextinction risk
Likelihood of permanent disappearance
genetic diversityselective breeding
Controlled reproduction for traits
artificial selection · eugenics · domestication · monocropping · industrial agriculture
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