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Explain why the biological species concept cannot be applied to organisms such as bacteria and some rotifers. What will be an ideal response?

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What is most likely to occur if a parasite accidentally introduced into the Great Lakes kills 95 of all living organisms
  living in the lakes?
  a. fusion in a hybrid zone
  b. evolution of a surviving organism
  c. mass extinction of the surviving organisms
  d. adaptive radiation of the surviving populations
  e. allopatric speciation in the surviving organisms
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6 years ago
Answer to q. 1

The biological species concept applies only to sexually reproducing organisms. Bacteria
reproduce asexually as do bdelloid rotifers. In fact, All bdelloid rotifers are females, and they
produce offspring without needing males. Both organisms have considerable exchange of
genetic material by means of horizontal gene transfer.

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