What Is the Term Given to a Group of Individuals

question 21

Multiple Choice

What is the term given to a group of individuals belonging to the same species that live in a defined geographic area that actually or potentially interbreed?

• A) population
• B) consanguinity
• C) hybrid vigor
• D) genetics
• E) cytogenetics

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Definitions:

Accounting Department

The division within a business that is responsible for managing the financial records, payroll, receivable and payable accounts, and financial reporting.

Passive Continental Margin

A region where the transition between oceanic and continental lithosphere that is not an active plate boundary occurs.

Oceanic Ridge

Underwater mountain systems formed by plate tectonics, consisting of continuous volcanic mountain chains in the ocean.

Trench

A narrow, steep-sided, elongate depression of the deep seafloor, formed by bending down of a subducting oceanic plate at a convergent plate boundary; includes the deepest parts of the ocean.