A population is better able to respond to environmental change if

Answer;

-It contains fewer individuals but high genetic diversity

A population is better able to respond to environmental change if it contains fewer individuals but high genetic diversity.

Explanation;

-An environment is every nongenetic influence, from prenatal nutrition to the people and things around us. It contains all external conditions and factors, living and nonliving (chemicals and energy), that affect an organism or other specified system during its lifetime.

-Genetic diversity is a measure of the genetic variation among individuals in a population. Populations with high genetic diversity are better able to respond to environmental change than populations with lower genetic diversity.

- For example, if a population of fish possesses high genetic diversity for disease resistance, at least some individuals are likely to survive whatever diseases move through the population. If the population declines in number, however, the amount of genetic diversity it can possess is also reduced, and this reduction increases the likelihood that the population will decline further when exposed to a disease.