NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -As continents broke apart from Pangaea, species got separated by seas and oceans and speciation occurred. Individuals that were once able to interbreed were reproductively isolated from one another and eventually acquired adaptations that made them incompatible. This drove evolution by creating new species.

Detailed explanation-2: -How has the geological process of plate tectonics influenced the process of evolution over geologic time? The changing location of the plates across the Earth’s surface results in changing climatic environmental conditions for various communities and populations of organisms. This has driven evolutionary change.

Detailed explanation-3: -Since the 1990s, however, most geoscientists have begun to accept that some form of plate tectonics occurred throughout the Proterozoic Eon, which commenced 2.5 billion years ago, and some extend these models back into the Archean, which most geologists maintain lasted from 4 billion to 2.5 billion years ago.

Detailed explanation-4: -The theory of plate tectonics revolutionized the earth sciences by explaining how the movement of geologic plates causes mountain building, volcanoes, and earthquakes.