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What kind of speciation has occurred in this example, and what has driven it?

Beetle pollinators of a particular plant are attracted to its flowers bright orange color. The beetles not only pollinate the flowers, but they mate while inside of the flowers. A mutant version of the plant with red flowers becomes more common with the passage of time. A particular variant of the beetle prefers the red flowers to the orange flowers. Over time, these two beetle variants diverge from each other to such an extent that interbreeding is no longer possible.
1. Allopatric speciation, ecological isolation
2. Sympatric speciation, habitat differentiation
3. Allopatric speciation, behavioral isolation
4. Sympatric speciation, sexual selection
5. Sympatric speciation, allopolyploidy

Asked by Catherine halcombe, Last updated: Jan 09, 2024

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C. Perez

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Answered Aug 01, 2019

The correct answer to this question is B, Sympatric speciation, habitat differentiation. Edward Bagnall Poulton coined the term sympatric speciation in 1904. It is one of three modes of speciation, which involves new species evolving from an ancestral species that is still surviving. Both the evolving and ancestral species will live in the same region.

This speciation is more likely to occur in plants. Others have also discovered different types of these speciations. Habitat differentiation occurs within sympatric speciation. It occurs when mutations that live in the same region can exploit different conditions. The other two modes of speciation are allopatric and parapatric.

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John Smith

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Answered Mar 15, 2017

Sympatric speciation, habitat differentiation
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