AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Monogamy is a mating system in which a single adult male and a single adult female mate. Such pair bonds may last for a single breeding attempt, a breeding season, or many breeding seasons as in some pair-living mammals and some geese and swans.

Detailed explanation-2: -The pair bonds of some monogamous species may last for the long term, even perhaps for a lifetime. Those of other species may last for only the short term, perhaps for only a single mating season.

Detailed explanation-3: -Monogamy is a relationship with only one partner at a time, rather than multiple partners. A monogamous relationship can be sexual or emotional, but it’s usually both. Many modern relationships are monogamous. But even if they want to be with just one partner, some people have trouble staying monogamous.

Detailed explanation-4: -A monogamous relationship is a relationship where two people date and have sex with each other exclusively, and they don’t share this type of connection with anyone else outside the couple. There is romantic, sexual, and emotional exclusivity between them.

Detailed explanation-5: -Recent discoveries have led biologists to talk about the three varieties of monogamy: social monogamy, sexual monogamy, and genetic monogamy. The distinction between these three are important to the modern understanding of monogamy.