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Answer: B) Birth rates equal death rates as limiting factors affect population sizes.
Explanation:
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Answer:
6, 3, 4, 5, 7, 2, 1
Explanation:
Here, speciation occurs because the original butterfly population gets separated into two populations, each facing a different set of environmental conditions. Initially, there was just a single population of butterflies in the valley and all butterflies were able to mate with each other. A fire destroyed their habitat so they had to migrate to other areas. Some butterflies migrated to eastern side of mountain and some to western side of mountain.
Now there were two butterfly populations and they faced different environment from each other. Over the time, the populations adapted to their local surroundings and started to accumulate changes in their genome. Their gene pools started to separate from each other. Eventually they evolved into two different species. When their old habitat was restored in the valley, they returned once again. However, this time they were not able to interbreed because they were now two different species.
Answer:
sympatric speciation
Explanation:
Different sympatric species have the same closest ancestor and live in the same area but inhabiting different niches.
The steps for sympatric speciation are:
- An ancestral species inhabit a geographic area.
- With time, different populations of the same species occupy different niches or microhabitats in this general area.
- As the microhabitats are different, they have different environmental pressures that are acting on each population.
- These pressures lead to the origin of differences between groups, which need to adapt to each environment
- Each population suffers genetic changes due to environmental conditions. These changes are inheritable.
- With time, these differences drive to the final complete divergence of populations, becoming different species and reproductively isolated.
In sympatric speciation, the interruption of genetic flow must be fast, and there must be differences in niches so no species can compete and displace the other species. <em>Speciation occurs in the same distribution area of the original species</em>. The new species originate in a place with no physical barriers but different environmental pressures.
In the exposed example,
- <em>The introduced Cichlid fishes 200 years ago</em> → Original species and the common ancestor between the new derivated species
- <em>The lake</em> → general geographic area
- <em>The main lake and the streams</em> → Microhabitats or niches with different pressures each
- <em>The groups are splitting into two genetically and physically different types of fishes. They do not mate. There is no genetic flow between groups.</em> → Speciation process.
