A biologist spends her summer break collecting frogs from a remote jungle in Peru. She discovers two distinct color forms that could be variants of a single species or two different species. What would be the most direct test of their species status under the biological species concept?

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Chaim Schaefer

7 June, 08:01

A biologist spends her summer break collecting frogs from a remote jungle in Peru. She discovers two distinct color forms that could be variants of a single species or two different species. What would be the most direct test of their species status under the biological species concept?

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Rex Diaz · Answer 1

Biological species concept explains the concept of speciation. According to this concept species are the group reproductively isolated individuals that can breed among themselves.

The species concept in the forest can directly be observed by observing the type of the mating natural environment in two different group of organisms. The two different forms if do not mate with each other then it can be consider that they belong to the different species.