Imagine That a Scientist Wants to Create a New Species

question 77

Multiple Choice

Imagine that a scientist wants to create a new species of minionsone that is a cross between a shark and a wolf. To his dismay, when he introduces shark sperm and wolf eggs into a petri dish, no viable embryos form. Why?

• A)The wolf eggs and shark sperm are temporally separated.
• B)This is an example of behavioral isolation  the shark sperm do not perform the correct courtship rituals to fertilize the wolf eggs.
• C)This is due to selection among embryos favoring the pure shark and pure wolf lines.
• D)This must be due to post-zygotic isolation.
• E)This could be an example of pre-zygotic isolation, where the proteins of the shark sperm and wolf eggs do not interact properly; however, this could also be an example of genetic incompatibility, where genomic differences between sharks and wolves prevent the formation of viable embryos.

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