The chief concern among conservation biologists trying to protect small populations is:

a) to maximize rates of allele fixation.
b) that mutation rates are much higher in small populations.
c) to preserve genetic diversity.
d) that natural selection can only operate in large populations.
e) to reduce the duration of genetic bottlenecks.


Ans: c) to preserve genetic diversity.

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