Question

A population of animals is split in half by a river before speciation is completed the two halves are rejoined when a drought causes the river to run dry how would this impact the two populations

A. speciation would still occur because the two halves would be too different genetically to interbreed.
B. traits that had developed through mutation would still exist only in one of the halves.
C. the two halves would be reproductively isolated.
D. individuals could now freely mate, and gene flow would increase. (this took so long to write please clap)

Answer 1

D. Individuals could now freely mate, and gene flow would increase.

Step-by-step explanation:

Since genes/traits are passed on from parent to offspring the gene flow would definitely increase. Since the population of animals is now brought back together by the drought, they now have more mates resulting in more and different genes combining. Therefore, the gene flow would increase.

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