Nursing:
Purpose The aim of the lab was to investigate what happens when a natural physical barrier suddenly splits a species within a given population.
Introduction
A species is a group of organisms within a population that can interbreed under natural conditions to produce fertile and viable offspring (The University of Miami, n.d.). In this context, a species exhibits reproductive isolation, in which physical and behavioral traits allow them to reproduce only with organisms that possess similar traits (Howard & Berlocher, 1998). Speciation describes how new sets of species are created and occurs when a group of organisms within a species separates ...