Biology

Ben Walker

27 February, 12:28

You work for a zoo where you manage the breeding program for the cheetah. Your goal is to prevent inbreeding by obtaining mates from other zoos, making sure that your cats produce healthy offspring. In analyzing the genes of the cheetahs in all the zoo breeding programs, you notice very little variety of traits (alleles). Select all of the following conclusions which could be supported by your findings?

a. All of the zoo cheetahs come from just a few common ancestors.

b. The number of individual cheetahs currently in Zoos must be very low.

c. The variety of trats found in wild cheetahs is very narrow, possibly due to only a few of the animals surviving some event or series of events in thepast.

d. Even aner several generations, the baby cheetahs produced at your zoo wil show very ame geneto variaton.