A natural disaster caused a piece of land to break away from the mainland. The landmass drifted away from the mainland and became isolated in the ocean. The landmass has a small fraction of species that were present on the mainland, and only a few individuals of each species survived. What will happen to the biodiversity of the newly formed island?
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it is an example of speciation known as geological isolation.
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This will create allopatric speciation which occurs when two population that contain same species are separated by geographical barrier and new population evolve.
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- Mutation in genes result formation of different population over time.
- The resulting population will differ from the main population.
- Breeding does't takes place between two separated population thus results in allopatric speciation.
- Ex- Darwin's Finches,Grand Canyon squirrels.
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