AP BIOLOGY

EVOLUTION

PATTERNS OF EVOLUTION

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]

Sometimes natural selection can lead to a process that creates a new species. What is this process called?

A	Genetic Variation
B	Gene Flow
C	Genetic Drift
D	Speciation

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Speciation is how a new kind of plant or animal species is created. Speciation occurs when a group within a species separates from other members of its species and develops its own unique characteristics.

Detailed explanation-2: -Speciation is an evolutionary process by which a new species comes into being.

Detailed explanation-3: -speciation. noun. process by which one or more populations of a species become genetically different enough to form a new species. species.

Detailed explanation-4: -Speciation results in the splitting of an ancestral species into two (or more) descendent species. This process, continued indefinitely, results in a sequence of speciation events extending over great expanses of time, resulting in a branching tree of historical relatedness.

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