Which statement best describes the probable future of this population?
The only known population of a reptile species lives on an African mountain. The population is relatively large, but no close relatives of this species are known. Suppose you could stop all mutations within the population and all emigration out of this population.
Which statement best describes the probable future of this population?
a. all evolution will promptly cease
b. the population will deteriorate after a few generations because of excessive inbreeding.
c. evolution will conntinue as selection acts on the variability produced by sexual reconbination of genes.
d. genetic drift will cause major evolutionary changed in the population.
e. although the population will cease to change, it may survive for as log as the environment remains constant.
I think it is either C or E..? hmm..not sure pff
The only known population of a reptile species lives on an African mountain. The population is relatively large, but no close relatives of this species are known. Suppose you could stop all mutations within the population and all emigration out of this population.
Which statement best describes the probable future of this population?
a. all evolution will promptly cease
b. the population will deteriorate after a few generations because of excessive inbreeding.
c. evolution will conntinue as selection acts on the variability produced by sexual reconbination of genes.
d. genetic drift will cause major evolutionary changed in the population.
e. although the population will cease to change, it may survive for as log as the environment remains constant.
I think it is either C or E..? hmm..not sure pff