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What do we call the study of the factors that affect the risk of extinction and the methods used to eliminate those risks?

Which of the following would make it difficult for zoo staff to use ARTs with a species?

Which of the following was an outcome from the cheetah paper you read for class?

THIS IS FAKE NEWS: We have just gotten news that we will be sending Cleo to another zoo and we will be getting a new female to breed with Zaba. Using what you know about Zaba and his enclosure, describe how you would introduce to the two caracals and what you would provide for them in order for them to breed successfully. In order to get full credit for this question make sure to provide details of the steps of your introduction plan(3pts) a timeline for how long it will take (2pts) any changes you would need to make to the enclosure to accommodate a newly introduced pair, successful breeding, and the possibility of new cubs (5pts). 

Which of the following species suffers from inbreeding depression in the wild?

Sex determination in eggs is determined by extracting samples of _____.

Sex determination in sperm is conducted by measuring _____.

What are we measuring when we measure genetic diversity?

When there are two of the same alleles at one locus, it is called ____.

Which of the following are possible side effects of low genetic diversity?