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Habitat isolation and overhunting has reduced the Florida Panther to dangerously low numbers. This low number of individuals in the population may lead to low genetic diversity and inbreeding in the population. Over time, the population will get smaller, eventually going extinct. Scientists want to bring in panthers from Texas to breed with the Florida Panthers, which will increase genetic diversity. which mechanisms of evolution does this action display?

mutations

genetic drift

natural selection

gene flow

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Gene flow.

Bringing Texas panthers into the Florida population is migration that introduces new alleles into the gene pool. (It can indirectly reduce the effects of genetic drift and change how selection acts, but the direct mechanism shown is gene flow.)