A shipwrecked sailor is stranded on a small desert with not fresh water to drink. He knows he could last without food up to a month, but if he didnt have water to drink he would be dead within a week. Hoping to postpone the inevitable, his thirst drove him to drink the salty seawater. He was dead in two days. Why do you think drinking seawater killed the sailor faster than not drinking any water at all?

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