Biology

Shiloh Sullivan

4 August, 00:17

On a coral reef in the Florida keys, a population of damselfish has two color variation: brown and pink. These fish seek habitats that provide good camouflage, so brown individuals mostly associate with stands brown elkhorn coral, and pink individuals are found exclusively in colonies of pink finger coral. Mating occurs within these coral patches, with females laying eggs onto rocks or dead coral, which is immediately fertilized by a male. Over time, these two groups of damselfish are likely to:

a. Undergo sympatric speciation due to female choice.

b. Produce a large number of offsprings that are the result of mating between pink and brown individuals.

d. Undergo allopatric speciation due to polyploidy.

e. Undergo sympatric speciation due habitat specialization Be in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.