Think about a question you have. Explain what you would do during each step of the scientific method to arrive at the solution. Be sure to include information about dependent and independent variables in your description of the experiment.

Which of the following factors would not contribute to allopatric speciation? a) a population becomes geographically isolated from the parent population. b) the separated population is small, and genetic drift occurs. c) the isolated population is exposed to different selection pressures than the ancestral population. d) different mutations begin to distinguish the gene pools of the separated populations. e) gene flow between the two populations is extensive.