3. Hypothetical scenario: There are five sub-populations of an endangered species, scattered across an island archipelago. You are a conservation biologist trying to use your genotypic studies to assess the relative genetic health of this species at large You perform a field research study, and return with the following results: Aa 114 19 25 18 31 105 Subpopulation 1 Subpopulation 2 38 Subpopulation 3 12 Subpopulation 4 13 181 Using the data, address the following questions, showing the math where necessary a) Which of these subpopulations would you argue is the most at risk of loss of genetic diversity, without doing any math? Why? Now using math, does your change if you consider a 5-generation period (assuming a constant population for each subpopulation during that time)? Explain your answer Given infinite time, what do you expect the allelic frequencies on all the islands to converge to (again, assuming constant population and no selective pressure)? b) c) d) What is your comprehensive perspective on the health of the species at large (i.e. taking all the subpopulations into account)? Make use of relevant concepts from lecture in your answer; carefully consider which metrics we have discussed that relate to genetic diversity (heterozygosity) and how they might be relevant here. In a real-world situation, organisms are classified on the basis of age (e.g. juvenile and mature). How do you expect that this would affect the calculation of Ne, effective population size, and why? e)