Question 5
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discuss how DNA sequence data can show evolutionary relationships between species

use Spearman’s rank correlation and Pearson’s linear correlation to analyse the relationships between two variables, including how biotic and abiotic factors affect the distribution and abundance of species (the formulae for these correlations will be provided, as shown in the Mathematical requirements)

discuss the meaning of the term species, limited to the biological species concept, morphological species concept and ecological species concept