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Which mode of speciation is believed to be the dominant one among most groups of organisms?


A) Allopatric speciation
B) Sympatric speciation
C) Reinforcement
D) Hybrid speciation
E) Temporal speciation

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Self-fertilization is common in many plant species but less common in animals.One consequence of this difference is that


A) reinforcement is much more likely in plants than in animals.
B) reinforcement is much more likely in animals than in plants.
C) the Dobzhansky-Muller model does not apply to plants.
D) new species can arise in plants through polyploidy much more easily than they can in animals.
E) new species can arise in animals through polyploidy much more easily than they can in plants.

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Which factor is most likely to yield narrow hybrid zones?


A) Prezygotic,rather than postzygotic,reproductive isolation
B) Postzygotic,rather than prezygotic,reproductive isolation
C) Dispersal of organisms over short,rather than long,distances
D) Disperse of organisms over long,rather than short,distances
E) Weak,rather than strong,selection

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An evolutionary biologist who makes decisions about whether to consider different populations of lacewings as separate species based on observations of the individuals with which these lacewings will mate is most likely employing the _______ species concept.


A) biological
B) cryptic
C) morphological
D) Linnean
E) lineage

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Which condition is least likely to lead to allopatric speciation?


A) A river dividing a population of small crickets
B) A deep gorge dividing a population of slow-moving snails
C) A mountain dividing a population of desert-dwelling mice
D) A lake dividing a population of butterflies
E) A land bridge dividing a population of tuna

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What is an advantage that a lineage species concept has over the biological species concept?


A) Only a lineage species concept can be applied to cryptic species.
B) The biological species concept cannot be applied to sexually dimorphic species.
C) A lineage species concept can be applied to fossil specimens that span a large evolutionary time scale.
D) The biological species concept is difficult to apply when changing environmental conditions affect morphology.
E) The biological species concept emphasizes reproductive isolation,a property that is irrelevant to maintaining the morphological distinctiveness of most species.

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Which situation would pose a major difficulty for applying the biological species concept?


A) Five snail fossils taken from the same locality during a 400,000-year time span
B) Two populations of sexually reproducing insects that can be bred easily in the same location under field conditions
C) Two populations of sexually reproducing plants that can be bred easily in the same location under field conditions
D) Sexually dimorphic mating pairs of birds
E) Monomorphic mating pairs of birds

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Refer to the diagram below showing different species of Bombina toads occupying different regions of Europe.A small area of overlap between these regions constitutes a hybrid zone.If individuals from differing populations overcome prezygotic reproductive barriers,additional postzygotic barriers may prevent the formation of stable hybrids.Based on the data shown below,which statement is true? Refer to the diagram below showing different species of Bombina toads occupying different regions of Europe.A small area of overlap between these regions constitutes a hybrid zone.If individuals from differing populations overcome prezygotic reproductive barriers,additional postzygotic barriers may prevent the formation of stable hybrids.Based on the data shown below,which statement is true?   A)  B.variegata individuals are moving into the range of B.bombina populations. B)  The ranges of the two species overlap in a long,wide hybrid zone. C)  The hybrid zone spreads from the middle of the range of overlap. D)  B.bombina does not like mountainous terrain. E)  The hybrid zone will likely persist for several generations of toads.


A) B.variegata individuals are moving into the range of B.bombina populations.
B) The ranges of the two species overlap in a long,wide hybrid zone.
C) The hybrid zone spreads from the middle of the range of overlap.
D) B.bombina does not like mountainous terrain.
E) The hybrid zone will likely persist for several generations of toads.

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Phylogenetic information is most useful for _______ species concept.


A) the morphological
B) an allopatric
C) the biological
D) a lineage
E) a cryptic

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Use the following to answer questions : Two species of crickets have partially overlapping ranges.Hybrids are never found in the areas where the species meet.Individuals taken either from areas where they meet or areas where they do not meet will rarely mate in the lab because the females reject the songs sung by males of the other species.Of the few hybrids that are produced in lab crosses,all have low viability. -The two cricket species exhibit _______ isolation.


A) mechanical
B) behavioral
C) habitat
D) gametic
E) temporal

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Even trained biologists have difficulty telling females of Drosophila melanogaster and D.sechellia apart,and yet these species are reproductively isolated.Thus,these species are considered _______ species.


A) lineage
B) morphological
C) cryptic
D) Mayr's
E) Linnaean

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Which statement about species concepts is true?


A) The various species concepts are mutually exclusive.
B) A lineage species concept can be used to study asexual organisms.
C) Biologists who use a lineage species concept reject the importance of reproductive isolation to speciation and the evolutionary process.
D) A lineage species concept cannot be applied to cryptic species.
E) The biological species concept species concept emphasizes the practical aspects of recognizing species.

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The biological species concept does not apply to which group of organisms?


A) Birds
B) Mammals that form monogamous pair bonds
C) Asexual scale insects
D) Fungi that engage in sexual reproduction
E) Cryptic species

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A hybrid zone that has formed recently


A) will likely have mainly F1 hybrids.
B) will be broad.
C) will impose weak selection.
D) is usually maintained by prezygotic reproductive isolation.
E) is usually maintained by postzygotic reproductive isolation

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Two species of monkeyflowers have diverged in the structure of their flowers such that they can no longer be effectively pollinated by the same pollinator species.This is an example of _______ isolation.


A) behavioral
B) allopatric
C) mechanical
D) temporal
E) sympatric

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The Isthmus of Panama cut off gene flow between Atlantic and Pacific populations of a species of fish.The cessation of gene flow led to the accumulation of genetic differences between the populations,which led to reproductive isolation.Now Atlantic and Pacific populations of this fish are separate species,and even if they were again to come into contact with each other,they could not interbreed.This situation illustrates the phenomenon of


A) sympatric speciation.
B) Dobzhansky-Muller speciation.
C) allopatric speciation.
D) reinforcement.
E) temporal isolation.

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Which statement about the Dobzhansky-Muller model of speciation is false?


A) It can involve interactions of genes.
B) It can involve combinations of chromosomal rearrangements.
C) It assumes that different mutations occur in each of two descendent lineages.
D) It assumes that selection acts differently in two descendent lineages.
E) It assumes genetic divergence.

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Which condition is least likely to lead to geographic isolation and allopatric speciation?


A) An eight-lane highway dividing a population of snails with limited mobility
B) A narrow,but deep,river dividing a population of hummingbirds
C) A narrow,but deep,river dividing a population of white-footed mice (not known for their swimming ability)
D) A patch of land bisecting a river and dividing a population of minnows
E) A mountain range dividing a population of moths

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Which statement about the hybrid zone between species of the European Bombina toad is false?


A) The hybrid toads often suffer skeletal abnormalities.
B) On average,the fitness of the hybrids found there is near that of the pure species.
C) The hybrid zone has persisted for a long time.
D) The toads inhabiting the zone are poor dispersers.
E) The hybrid zone is long and narrow.

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Despite inhabiting overlapping ranges,the western spotted skunk and the eastern spotted skunk do not interbreed,partly because the western species breeds in early fall and the eastern species breeds in late winter to early spring.This is an example of _______ isolation.


A) chemical
B) gametic
C) postzygotic
D) temporal
E) mechanical

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