The answer is reproductive isolation. Reproductive isolation ensures members of different species do not produce offspring. In this case, geographical separation is ensuring that individuals from the two different populations are not able to mate with each other. Eventually, through different selective pressures, the two populations will diverge sufficiently in genotype to become distinctly different.
Answer:
Substitution
Explanation:
Mutations can simply be defined as change in the structure of a gene. Mutation can be of different types. These include, but not limited to:
- Insertion: This involves the insertion of extra base pairs into a DNA
- Deletion: Loss of DNA section
- Substitution: When a nucleotide base gets substituted with another base.
<em>Substitution of a base can lead to coding of different amino acid and hence, protein. It can also lead to coding of the same amino acid, otherwise known as silent mutation. Base substitution can also lead to the amino-acid-coding codon becoming a stop codon, leading to an incomplete protein.</em>
The correct answer is substitution.
