Inbreeding And Its Effect On Cheetahs

When a species gives rise to a new species the small group breaks away and becomes geographically/reproductively isolated from its ancestral group. As long as it remains small and detached, the founder group can experience fairly rapid genetic changes.

From the data we can conclude that different traits or parameters can effect a population in many different ways. It can decrease or increase a population depending on the trait. After a hurricane hits Lake Malawi the cichlid fish male population must adapt to the new factors that have been put upon them. Mutation within the population supports the fact that it can cause dominant and recessive allele frequency to decrease. Migration causes the allele frequency to lower as well due to movement of the population after the hurricane. The cichlid male fish with a higher fitness are more suitable for their environment, but when their fitness is lowered, their allele frequency decreases. This

fitness does well in its habitat and passes those favorable alleles onto its offspring when it reproduces.

Speciation is when a population cannot exchange genes with another population. This occurs because of geographic, behavioral, and temporal isolation. The rodents in the St. Kitts island is a small species that has been threatened by development. The populace is extremely minuscule and the rodents are struggling in finding a mate. During my study, I noticed the Nevis rodent population were very healthy and could be used as potential mates for the rodents in the island of St. Kitts. Unfortunately, after 240 attempts to mate the populations no reproductive event was successful. The St. Kitts rodents and the Nevis rodents cannot exchange genes

On the other hand, conservations efforts are worthless and not seen because of all of these changes explained above. It is very difficult for a trait/alleles to be conserved in a population when a bottleneck event or a genetic drift event happens, since many of these traits will be lost and not passed on from generation to

A. Rus hoelze et al, studied the impact of intense hunting of Northern Elephant Seals in the late 19th century, whose genetic variation reduced due to this bottleneck. This reduced their population size to just about 20. They found that although it has since rebounded to over 30K now but compared to their southern counterparts i.e., Southern Elephant Seals they have much less genetic variation. The Southern Elephant Seals didn’t went through this bottleneck event. It is clear that the genes of Northern Elephant Seals still carrying the marks of this bottleneck.

“If no such variations exist, the population rapidly goes extinct because it cannot adapt to a changing environment” (O’Neil, 1998-2013). Scientists call this reproductive success. “Within a specific environment context, one genotype will be better than another genotype in survival or reproduction for certain reasons having to do with the way its particular features relate to the environment or relate to other organisms within the population” (Futuyma, 2000-2014). The theory of evolution is explicable through various kinds of scientific research.

Inbreeding is the outcome of offspring from mating of individuals that are related by a descent. It is important to limit this effect in conservation programs due to the increased amount of homozygosity and exposed deleterious recessive alleles, which increase the risk of extinction to the population.

Offspring that possess favorable traits are more capable of surviving into adulthood and thus reproducing. We know from genetics that there is an increased likelihood that their offspring would also possess that desirable trait. The population of individuals possessing the trait would increase as more individuals possessing the trait survived to reproductive years, and fewer without the trait did not. Natural selection can help prevent a species from going extinct if they were to face adverse conditions that

The article “Cheetahs Ghosts of the Grasslands” by Richard Coniff discusses the decline in cheetahs around the world due to predators and the destruction of their habitats. The cheetah population began diminishing an estimated amount of 10,000 years ago. About 1,500 cheetahs are living in captivity along with lions and hyenas. It might seem as if cheetahs are very fierce wild cats; however, in the Serengeti located in Tanzania Cheetahs face many threats such as cubs being killed by lions and hyenas or either die of hunger because lions eat the food that the cheetah hunted for. Biologists believe that this animal is sensitive to changes in its habitat, so the slightest change can cause harmful effects to cheetahs. Cheetahs once roamed in Asia,

There is another side to the biodiversity of the evolutionary field, as the population weakens the species start the inbreeding of smaller populations, thus playing a role in the extinction of a species. Inbreeding is reproduction among members of a species that are genetically similar. The genetic inbreeding is designed to bolster populations of species whose numbers are in decline. However, when only a few species or varieties of a species are cultivated or survive, the genetic diversity of the organism declines, and population is more vulnerable to being wiped out by new diseases or climate changes because of the inbreeding (Alters, 2000).

In a cave far, far away, lived Elizabeth, Alex, and Larisha. Elizabeth is a wolf, Alex is a tiger and Larisha is a cheetah. Elizabeth, Alex, and Larisha live together in a cave. Alex and Larisha are going hunting in the forest for food. They left Elizabeth so she can keep watch over the cave. Alex and Larisha got injured from hunting by Bob, Jon, and Jack, a pack of wolves. Elizabeth is getting worried, Alex and Larisha doesn't usually take this long. Elizabeth got a letter from Jon and Jack the letter says that “if you want to save your friends, you have to find me.” Elizabeth starts to running around the forest to find them.

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The Cheetah The cheetah is one of the most fascinating land animals. It has so many interesting facts about it! Cheetahs have a huge impact on the animal kingdom. They have many amazing physical features.

What animal do you know can compete with a sports car in a race? Take a wild guess. Cheetahs! Cheetahs are the best because they’re the fastest land animal. Also, they are fascinating felions and have many special features like no other animal. The cheetah is primarily found in Africa (D’Silva). They are made for speed. “Built more like greyhounds than typical cats, cheetahs are adapted for brief but intense bursts of speed (Smithsonian). In Africa, everyone head to the lion’s cage expecting to see the lions because they are the king of Africa as the movie, “The Lion King” describes. However, because cheetahs are the fastest land animals, lions can not compete with it, and cheetahs have many features that any