describe any three ways in which individuals with a particular trait may increase in population?
GENETIC DRIFT:-When the frequency of some genes gets changed in a small population due to some accidental reasons, such phenomenon is known as Genetic Drift. Genetic drift can give rise to different changes in sub-populations. It is random and rarely produces adaptations to the environment.
NATURAL SELECTION:- It may be defined as a process that results in the increased
survival and reproductive success of individuals, who are well adjusted to the
environment. Theory of natural selection was given by Charles Robert Darwin
The effect of geographic isolation is that the two populations are subjected to different selection pressures, since the conditions in the two areas will be different. So different alleles will be selected for, and genetic differences will gradually accumulate between, the populations.
In time, enough genetic differences will occur so that the two populations will no longer interbreed. Then, by definition, they have become different species.