Florida Panthers

Question 1

in 1500 population was
in 1994 population was

Answer 1

1500 population = 50 000
1994 population = 24

Question 2

suffer from

Answer 2

• low fertility
• heat defects
• poor immunity
• other recessive genetic problems

*usually high population = high genetic variation

Question 3

Florida panthers are subspecies

Answer 3

true; of puma concolor

Question 4

why is their population so low

Answer 4

1) victims of overhunting and habitat fragmentation (European settlers and modernization)

• forced to inbreed
• susceptible to extinction vortex
• 95% chance of extinction in 20 years

Question 5

extinction vortex

Answer 5

describes how small populations are increasingly likely to go extinct over time

Question 6

one selection against one set of genes can what

Answer 6

drastically reduce the population

= usually in inbred populations

Question 7

solution: genetic reduce

Answer 7

• brought in individuals
• 8 texas panthers
• increase of heterozygosity
• population gained more alleles

Question 8

potential issues with genetic rescue

Answer 8

• new individuals may outcompete the old ones
• new and old individuals may hunt eachother
• when the new and old mate, their offspring may be poorly adapted to the local environment [IBEX]

IBEX
- the ones that were brought in usually birth kids in summer but the ones they were saving did it in winter and so the babies didn’t survive

Question 9

model organisms

Answer 9

species used to study a problem when the target organism is impossible to use

i.e. instead of studying humans, we study on mice