why does having genetically diverse population make a species more likely tto survive a change to the enviorment .​

the answer is that genetic diversity serves as a way for poulplation to adapt to changing envirements

Explanation:

i asked my collage science teacher

genetic variation can be caused by mutation (which can create entirely new alleles in a population), random mating, random fertilization, and recombination between homologous chromosomes during meiosis (which reshuffles alleles within an organism's offspring).