Put the Following Stages of Allopatric Speciation in a Terrestrial

question 30

Multiple Choice

Put the following stages of allopatric speciation in a terrestrial beetle population in the correct order. i. Mutation, drift, and selection act separately on the two subpopulations, and they become increasingly divergent.
Ii) A river dries up, and the population has continuous geographic range with reproductive barriers that reduce gene flow between certain individuals.
Iii) A river physically divides the population into two subpopulations.
Iv) The population has continuous geographic range with some genetic variation.

• A) iv, ii, i, iii
• B) iv, iii, i, ii
• C) ii, iii, i, iv
• D) ii, iii, iv, i

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