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The appearance of a fertile, polyploid individual within a population of diploid organisms is a possible source of a new species. If this individual is capable of reproducing to form a new population, scientists would consider this to be an example of a) allopatric speciation b) sympatric speciation c) polygenic inheritance d) genetic drift e) Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
The appearance of a fertile, polyploid individual within a population of diploid organisms is a possible source of a new species. If this individual is capable of reproducing to form a new population, scientists would consider this to be an example of
a) allopatric speciation
b) sympatric speciation
c) polygenic inheritance
d) genetic drift
e) Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
Answer
Answer: b) sympatric speciation
Explanation: Sympatric speciation occurs without geographic separation and can be driven by mechanisms like polyploidy, where a new species arises from a single population that remains in the same geographic area.
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