You Are an Undergraduate Student Working with a Graduate Student

question 59

Multiple Choice

You are an undergraduate student working with a graduate student in an entomology lab,and she presents you with a box of preserved grasshoppers of various species that are new to science and have not been described.Your assignment is to help her separate them into species.There is no accompanying information as to where or when they were collected.Which species concept will you have to use?

• A)biological
• B)phylogenetic
• C)ecological
• D)morphological

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