Question

The Panama Canal was completed in 1914, and its depth is about 50 feet. After 1914, snapping shrimp species from which habitats should be most likely to form hybrids as the result of the canal?
a) A3 and B3
b) A5 and B5
c) A1 and B1
d) either A1 and A2, or B1 and B2
e) A1A3 and B1B3 have equal likelihoods of harboring snapping shrimp species that can hybridize.

Answer 1

Answer:

Option C

Explanation:

Please see the attached image for the panama canal

Solution

Shrimps are the species that live in the bottommost areas of any water body i.e the bottom of the river or at the base of an ocean floor. Some of them are in habit of hiding themselves into the sand, mud, and rock along the sea shore.  

In the image, the region  A1 and B1 is the region closest to the ocean surface and as stated earlier some species of shrimps live close of sea/ocean surface. Thus, A1 and B1 regions will have shrimp hybrids.

 Hence, option C is correct