Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu. Plants use sunlight to convert nutrients into energy. What form of energy transfer is taking place? The chemical, potential, radiant, or sound energy of the Sun is converted into chemical, kinetic, mechanical, or thermal energy by the plants.

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.