Describe the process of speciation. include in your discussion the factors that may contribute to the maintenance of genetic isolation.

The process of speciation is the separation of a specific population into different species. The factors that may affect to maintain this genetic isolation are: allopatric, sympatric, prezygotic and postzygotic barriers. Allopatric barriers occurs when two species that are of the same family before cannot go back to the way they were before unless a contact between the two is established again. Sympatric are a group of species that shared the same family before but forced to evolve separately due to environmental factors. Prezygotic barriers are a group of species that are formed from the developing fertilized egg. 

this age may represent the age of the earth's accretion, of core formation, or of the material from which the earth formed. this dating is based on evidence from radiometric age-dating of meteorite material and is consistent with the radiometric ages of the oldest-known terrestrial and lunar samples.