Question

Mutation could lead to evolution and speciation.

• A. True
• B. False

Answer 1

The correct option is A True

According to Hugo de Vries, mutation (sudden heritable changes) leads to evolution, resulting in speciation. Nature selects the beneficial mutations and eliminates the lethal ones. These sudden heritable changes get accumulated over the years and eventually, result in new phenotypes, leading to the formation of new species (speciation). de Vries called this process saltation, meaning that mutations could be large, and could even result in single - step speciation.