Answer:
New species develop when:
D. Diverging species no longer recognize one another as potential mates.
Explanation:
- The development of two or more new species from ancestral population is known as speciation.
- Speciation can occur when the population divides into groups and each group occupies a different habitat (geographic isolation) or when the members of the same population do not find one another as potential mate and do not interbreed (reproductive isolation mechanism).
- The three types are: Allopatric speciation.
Sympatric speciation.
Parapatric speciation.
- Allopatric speciation occurs when genetic divergence is allowed through geographic isolation.
- Sympatric speciation does not involve geographic isolation but involves reproductive isolation mechanisms.
- In Parapatric speciation, a population enters a new niche or habitat within the range of parent species and then evolution of reproductive isolation mechanism occurs.
