How does polyploidy allow speciation to occur in a single generation? Polyploid offspring produce gametes earlier in the mating season than than their diploid parents, causing reproductive isolation between the two generations. Polyploid offspring produce smaller gametes that disperse farther than the gametes of diploid parents, causing geographic isolation between the two generations. Physiological differences between polyploid offspring and their diploid parents allow them to thrive in different environments, causing geographic isolation between the two generations. Genomic differences between polyploid offspring and their diploid parents prevent them from successfully interbreeding, causing reproductive isolation between the two generations.

Suppose a point mutation, such as a change from an adenine to a guanine, occurs in the genome of a human sperm cell. the mutation could occur in any region of a gene. the effect of the mutation on the phenotype of the offspring will be determined by where the mutation occurs and its effect on the final gene product. in which of the following scenarios could the mutation alter the phenotype of the offspring? select all of the scenarios that apply the mutation occurs in the promoter and affects the rate of gene transcription. the mutation results in a new, dominant allele the mutation occurs in a portion of an intron not responsible for exon splicing the mutation occurs in a gene that controls development and alters differentiation of a cell type during development. the mutation occurs in a codon and alters the function of the final protein e mutation occurs in a codon, and the amino acid sequence of the final protein is unchanged.