PrepTest 135, Section 1, Question 12
By Brandon Beaver | Published October 29, 2024
Type: Paradox
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Explanations
Hmm, interesting. How can the populations be distinct if babies from other distinct populations are likely carried into another distinct population? Maybe every population eats / kills outsiders?
A
Total dud. There are genetic differences. It doesn’t matter how substantial. This doesn’t answer the question at all.
B
This would just leave me with more questions! Also, the passage says that interbreeding would result in two previously distinct populations becoming genetically the same.
C
That would explain it. It’s not the growing up part that merges previously distinct populations; it’s the breeding part. This says that baby shrimp may grow up in a foreign population, but they always migrate back before breeding.
D
This means shrimp born in the distinct population would migrate to a different one, causing interbreeding. This hurts, not helps.
E
But wouldn’t the baby shrimp then try to find their way back, likely not to their original population? This leaves me with more questions than answers.
Passage
Populations of a shrimp species at eleven different Indonesi
Question 12
Which one of the following, if true, most helps to explain t