What is the purpose of dna polymerase? a) it carries genetic information to the ribosomes. b) it produces a complementary copy of a strand of dna. c) it constructs rna chains using a template from dna genes. d) it retrieves amino acids from the cytoplasm for protein construction.

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.