Back علم الوراثة المحافظة Arabic Konzervacijska genetika BS Genética de la conservación Spanish ژنتیک حفاظت Persian 保全遺伝学 Japanese Genetyka konserwatorska Polish Genética para conservação Portuguese Di truyền học bảo tồn Vietnamese
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Conservation genetics is an interdisciplinary subfield of population genetics that aims to understand the dynamics of genes in a population for the purpose of natural resource management, conservation of genetic diversity, and the prevention of species extinction. Scientists involved in conservation genetics come from a variety of fields including population genetics, research in natural resource management, molecular ecology, molecular biology, evolutionary biology, and systematics. The genetic diversity within species is one of the three fundamental components of biodiversity (along with species diversity and ecosystem diversity),[1] so it is an important consideration in the wider field of conservation biology.
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