Answer: the plants are adapted to different climates. The waxy coating is thick on the desert plant as an adaptation to conserve water.
Explanation: Both plants live in full sun, so have similar exposure and similar levels of chloroplasts, no difference that alters flowering. Both plants are C3 type photosynthesisers, with the same photosynthetic system.
<span>The answer could be allopatric or sympatric speciation
depending on the cause of speciation. A population living in the same habitat
could be separated by a physical barrier hence restricting gene flow in the population.
On the other hand, sympatric speciation refers to the formation of different species
from a population that is in the same habitat and geographical area without any
physical separation. This could be due to differences in mating tendencies of individuals
in the population </span>
It is a nucleic acid. It is found in DNA. It is used to build an organism’s structures. It allows parents and their young to have similar characteristics.