Question

You want to study divergence of populations, and you need to maximize the rate of divergence to see results within the period of your grant funding. You will form a new population by taking some individuals from a source population and isolating them so the two populations cannot interbreed. What combination of characteristics would maximize your chance of seeing divergence in this study? Why?

Answer 1

These three features will maximize genetic diversity in the new population:

1.To investigate species with many offsprings in each generation

2.To use individuals localized in the extremes of the distribution to conform the new population

3.To localize the new population in an ideal environment in order that organisms can reproduce between them