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Understanding Race

Chapter 13, Problem 5

According to the most accepted scientific hypothesis about the origin of two new species from a single common ancestor, most new species arise when                   . a. many mutations occur; b. populations of the ancestral species are isolated from one another; c. there is no natural selection; d. a supernatural creator decides that two new species would be preferable to the old one; e. the ancestral species decides to evolve

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Hello everyone. And in today's video we have the following problem. Groups of similar individuals that can interbreed freely and produce fertile offspring are referred to us. So we're looking for what, which one of the following answer choices can fit this definition that we see here. Let's begin by ecosystem. These ecosystems are used these large areas that have similar biotic and a biotic factors. So these biotic factors are going to be the living organisms and these periodic factors are going to be things like ph light temperature and more. So this is not going to be describing or or or questions that we're going to cancel it out. We don't have bio which is very similar to ecosystem. However, it only contains is in areas that contain this chair. A biotic factors are going to be ph light and temperature that we discussed. It is also not going to describe what our question is just stating for us, we're going to cancel it out. And then moving on, we have the biological population. Now. This is where it gets interesting. Biological population can be described as groups of individuals or inhabiting a certain this area. However, they do not go into this definition that we hear that they can interbreed freely and that they can produce fertile offspring population or simply a group of individuals. This all left us with answer choice A a species. Species just like humans, we're able to interpret freely and create fertile offspring which is the offerings such as our Children are able to then just produce more offerings. This makes us as a species and that is exactly what the question is describing. So we're going to highlight answer choice A as being our final answer. Thank you very much for sticking around until the end of this video. I really hope this helped you.