How Might Secondary Contact Result in a Cline

question 8

Multiple Choice

How might secondary contact result in a cline?

• A) Reproductive character displacement completes the speciation process.
• B) Hybrid matings may have low fitness.
• C) Reproductive isolation is partially complete and a spatial gradient of hybrids forms.
• D) Reproductive isolation is incomplete and the two populations form a single species without spatial variation.

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