Week 4 quiz (BIOL1082)

Which of the following factors does not affect speciation?

• Recombination

• Genetic Drift

• Gene Flow

• Geographic isolation

Hybrid's fitness will always be more than the parental species

• True

• False

What factors are characteristic of allopatric speciation?

• Geographic isolation

• Polyploidy

• Faster evolution of new species

• Physical isolation by an external barrier

Which one of the following are the turtles most closely related to?

• Birds

• Bony fish

• Mammals

• jawless fish

Which one of the following indicates a synapomorphy[shared derived trait]?

(Analyse the figures with respect to white dots as the traits in question)

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