AP BIOLOGY

EVOLUTION

PATTERNS OF EVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What type of speciation involves isolation due to differences in mating rituals?
A
geologic isolation
B
behavioral isolation
C
temporal isolation
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Two species might have different courtship behaviors or mate preferences and thus find each other “unattractive". This is known as behavioral isolation.

Detailed explanation-2: -Behavioral isolation is a mechanism of evolution that can lead to speciation. It is sometimes called ethological isolation. This happens when two populations of the same species develop some difference in behavior. A common example is mating rituals.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The Process of Speciation. Behavioral Isolation. Behavioral isolation occurs when two populations that are capable of interbreeding develop differences in courtship rituals or other behaviors.

Detailed explanation-5: -Gametic isolation-the sperm and egg are incompatible; Behavioral isolation-unique mating signals or courtship rituals; Temporal isolation-separation in time such that reproduction occurs at different times of the day, or season or even years.

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