The Movement of Organisms Away from Their Place of Origin

question 30

Multiple Choice

The movement of organisms away from their place of origin, called ____, can produce a ____ distribution, in which closely related species live in widely separated locations.

• A) fragmentation; continuous
• B) vicariance; disjunct
• C) vicariance; continuous
• D) dispersal; disjunct
• E) dispersal; continuous

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