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Title: Does Artificial Selection help protect Endangered species? Post by: LeezaR on Apr 18, 2013 its an enviornmental science question. does this process help the endangered species not go extinct?
Title: Does Artificial Selection help protect Endangered species? Post by: micahritz on Apr 18, 2013 It can be used to help protect endangered species, when used correctly to maintain genetic diversity through keeping records so that the species does not become a few inbred lineages, and through culling of defective individuals.
It can also harm a species through deliberate inbreeding to maintain defectives. The most egregious example of this one is the Bengal tiger. The white ones are inbred all to heck, and most white ones display more defects than just the white fur. (Siegfried & Roy, U SUKK). |