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Chapter 8 speciation and inheritance: Explain how natural selection could produce copper tolerant populations in mine waste Variation is present in population due to mutation Tolerant plants are more likely to survive Surviving individuals reproduce and pass on their alleles to offspring Frequency of copper tolerance alleles increases in population 2. A new species may be produced, why: Reproductive isolation Environmental conditions different for each population Different features selected for Populations become genetically different No longer able to produce fertile offspring 3. Speciation may occur following the formation of small lakes explain why Isolation of populations Variations present due to mutation Environmental conditions different Selection of different features Different frequency of alleles Separate gene pools