For Each Blank in the Following Sentences, Select the Present

question 10

Multiple Choice

For each blank in the following sentences, select the present tense helping verb can or the past tense could. To determine whether a sentence is in the present or past tense, look at other verbs in the sentence or look for a time word.
-When I ate the pancakes, I __________ taste the buckwheat flour.

• A) can
• B) could

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Definitions:

Post-mating, Prezygotic

Describes reproductive barriers that occur after mating but before the formation of a zygote, such as sperm-egg incompatibility.

Reproductive Isolating Barrier

Factors that prevent different species from interbreeding, thus maintaining species boundaries.

Eggs Get Fertilized

The process by which sperm and egg unite to form a zygote, initiating the development of a new organism.

Cryptic Species

Cryptic species are lineages that historically have been treated as one species because they are morphologically similar but that are later revealed to be genetically distinct.