1. A clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa) is aleopard-like cat found in Southeast Asia that has large patchpatterns instead of the spots of the leopard (Pantherapardus) found in Africa and much of Asia. In recent news youcan read stories declaring the clouded leopard of the islands ofBorneo and Sumatra as being a different species from those found onthe Asian mainland. If indeed these cats are a different species,this would be evidence of
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allopatric speciation.
sympatric speciation.
parapatric speciation.
disruptive selection.
2. The federal government approaches you and asks if you wouldbe willing to take 1,000 wild mustang horses to help reduce mustangoverpopulation on federal park land. You agree and release them onyour huge ranch. Hundreds of years later your descendents travelback to the old family ranch to see if there are any horses left.What they find astounds them—all the horses areeither miniature brown type or very large brown draft horse types.None of the medium sized multicolored mustangs remain. Yourdescendents consult a horse geneticist and she tells them that thisis probably the result of
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3. Except in identical twins or clones, no two individuals aregenetically alike. All genetic variety in individuals comes fromthe fact that half of an individual's genes come from the maleparent and the other half from the female parent.
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4. You work for a zoo where you manage the breeding program forthe cheetah. Your goal is to prevent inbreeding by obtaining matesfrom other zoos, making sure that your cats produce healthyoffspring. In analyzing the genes of the cheetahs in all the zoobreeding programs, you notice very little variety of traits(alleles). Select all of the following conclusions which could besupported by your findings?
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All of the zoo cheetahs come from just a few commonancestors.All of the zoo cheetahs come from just a few commonancestors.
The number of individual cheetahs currently in zoos must be verylow.The number of individual cheetahs currently in zoos must bevery low.
The variety of traits found in wild cheetahs is very narrow,possibly due to only a few of the animals surviving some event orseries of events in the past.The variety of traits found in wildcheetahs is very narrow, possibly due to only a few of the animalssurviving some event or series of events in the past.
Even after several generations, the baby cheetahs produced atyour zoo will show very little genetic variation.Even after severalgenerations, the baby cheetahs produced at your zoo will show verylittle genetic variation.
