Environmental Effects On Polar Bears

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Climate Changes could threaten Polar Bears survival rate. Researchers announced on March 1, 2010 that a genetic traces were found that linked Polar Bears split from Brown Bears 150,000 years ago. “ ‘From a conservation perspective it does tell us the polar bear has been through warming periods before," says Lisette Waits, a professor in the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources at the University of Idaho.’ ” A polar bear has the oldest DNA in the Mitochondria (mitochondrial genome) ever recorded. Finding the remain of the jawbone in 2004 (genetic trace) was a miracle due to the fact that Polar Bears live on ice, so it is quite likely that most of their remains would end up in the ocean. Analysis on the Jawbone provided little clues, but