UNIT 2 - Biodiversity Flashcards
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What is a genetic bottleneck?
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Where the gene pool drastically reduces, meaning all the population afterwill have similar allelles to the remaining individuals
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What is meant by genetic diversity
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Variation due to a difference in alleles
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What is the founder effect?
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Where some of the species become isolated, the population after will have similar allelles to the founding individuals
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What is intraspecific variation?
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Variation within a species
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What is interspecific variation?
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Variation within different species
