You Are Studying a Species of Frog in Which Individuals

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Multiple Choice

You are studying a species of frog in which individuals from two successive generations can no longer interbreed, suggesting that the offspring are a different species from the parents. If speciation occurred because of changes in chromosome counts between the parents and the offspring, would this be an example of speciation by natural selection?

• A)Yes, because all speciation events involve natural selection.
• B)Yes, because there is genetic variation present due to differences in chromosome numbers.
• C)Yes, because natural selection is involved whenever there is a difference in the genome size between the parents (species 1)and the offspring (species 2).
• D)No. Speciation occurred, but natural selection was not involved.
• E)No. Natural selection can only act on populations, not on individuals.

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