Use the Following Information to Answer the Next Few Questions

question 62

Multiple Choice

Use the following information to answer the next few questions.
Two populations of the highly ornamented white-crested sparrow species are spatially separated by a mountain range. Males from the two populations exhibit differing elaborate courtship displays. When a female appears, the males from the eastern population approach the female while bobbing their heads and spreading their wings, while the western population approaches a female by hopping and flapping their wings. Individuals from each population reared in isolation exhibited the same courtship displays as those in the wild.
-After mating a female from the eastern population to a male from the western population, the resulting male offspring exhibited a hybrid courtship display, bobbing their heads and flapping their wings. This indicates that

• A)courtship displays are a result of environmental pressures.
• B)the elicited courtship display depends on female response.
• C)courtship displays are under the control of more than one gene.
• D)courtship displays are a learned behaviour.
• E)associative learning is involved in courtship displays.

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