AP BIOLOGY

EVOLUTION

PATTERNS OF EVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A difference of chemical scents used for mating between two populations is an example of what kind of isolation?
A
temporal
B
behavioral
C
geographic
D
disruptive
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -This is known as ethological, or behavioral, isolation. Colors, songs, and scented chemicals (pheromones) are common signals that bring mating partners together–or keep them apart.

Detailed explanation-2: -Behavioral isolation occurs when the presence or absence of a specific behavior prevents reproduction from taking place. For example, male fireflies use specific light patterns to attract females.

Detailed explanation-3: -A difference of chemical scents between two populations is an example of what kind of isolation? geographic isolation.

Detailed explanation-4: -temporal isolation, in biology, a type of reproductive isolation mechanism among sexual organisms in which the differences in the timing of critical reproductive events prevent members of closely related species, which could otherwise breed with one another, from mating and producing hybrid offspring.

Detailed explanation-5: -Behavioral isolation occurs when mismatches in mating traits (signals and/or preferences) prevent mating between two species/populations.

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