{"id":21651,"date":"2024-03-19T10:14:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T04:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=21651"},"modified":"2025-04-06T13:40:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T08:10:53","slug":"genetic-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/genetic-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Genetic Rescue?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Genetic Rescue<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Genetic rescue is the\u00a0process of increasing population growth with new genetic variation\u00a0by migrating individuals into another small population (i.e.,\u00a0gene flow).<\/li>\n<li>In practice, wildlife managers\u00a0take individuals from a larger, healthier population, and bring them\u00a0to a smaller population\u00a0to introduce new variation and eventually help grow the population.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This conservation strategy aims to\u00a0alleviate genetic load, decrease extinction risk, and\u00a0enhance the viability of endangered species and populations.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is often employed in conservation biology to\u00a0mitigate the negative effects of inbreeding depression, which can occur when individuals within a population mate with close relatives, leading to decreased reproductive success and viability of offspring.<\/li>\n<li>Genetic rescue can\u00a0have both beneficial and deleterious effects, depending on factors such as the magnitude and duration of gene flow, as well as the genetic and non-genetic factors influencing population dynamics.<\/li>\n<li>There can be risks involved with moving animals around, so it\u2019s often\u00a0thought of as a last resort.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a Gene?<\/h3>\n<p>A gene is the basic physical and functional unit of heredity. Genes are made up of DNA. Some genes act as instructions to make molecules called proteins.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/blog\/wildlife-biodiversity\/conservation-not-enough-for-the-highly-inbred-ranthambore-tigers-they-require-genetic-rescue-95077\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Conservation not enough for the highly inbred Ranthambore tigers \u2014 they require genetic rescue<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genetic rescue is the process of increasing population growth with new genetic variation by migrating individuals into another small population (i.e., gene flow).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}