A) Allopatric speciation
B) Sympatric speciation
C) Reinforcement
D) Hybrid speciation
E) Temporal speciation
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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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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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A) biological
B) cryptic
C) morphological
D) Linnean
E) lineage
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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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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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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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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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A) the morphological
B) an allopatric
C) the biological
D) a lineage
E) a cryptic
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A) mechanical
B) behavioral
C) habitat
D) gametic
E) temporal
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A) lineage
B) morphological
C) cryptic
D) Mayr's
E) Linnaean
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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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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) 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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A) behavioral
B) allopatric
C) mechanical
D) temporal
E) sympatric
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A) sympatric speciation.
B) Dobzhansky-Muller speciation.
C) allopatric speciation.
D) reinforcement.
E) temporal isolation.
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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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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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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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A) chemical
B) gametic
C) postzygotic
D) temporal
E) mechanical
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