Question

A scientist raised a species of fruit flies over several generations in separate containers. The diagram shows what happened as a result of the experiment. Do you think this is an example of allopatric speciation or sympatric speciation? Explain your reasoning.

Answer 1

The phenomenon can be called as an allopatric speciation.

Explanation:

Speciation was coined by Orator F Cook in 1906. Speciation is defined as the evolutionary process by which a group of generalised population undergoes evolution to form one or more species.

Here in the diagram, we can see that the initial population was divided into two groups which were kept at a separation. This is similar to the geographic separation as seen in natural allopatric speciation. Thus they developed into two different species and so, inter breeding isn't favoured between them. Thus it's an allopatric speciation

Answer 2

Answer:This is allopatric speciation. The organisms were separated from each other by the containers. The separation caused them to evolve to the point that they were more likely to mate with each other than with a member of another tank.

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