Question

The two species of snakes, the Emerald Tree Boa and the Boa Constrictor, belong to the same genus; however, the former is tree dwelling and needs high humidity whereas the latter is terrestrial and requires a dry environment. What kind of the evolutionary mechanism was responsible for this?

Answer 1

The two species of snakes, the Emerald Tree Boa and the Boa Constrictor, belong to the same genus; however, the former is tree dwelling and needs high humidity whereas the latter is terrestrial and requires a dry environment. What kind of the evolutionary mechanism was responsible for this?

Answer 2

No its Sympatric evolution

Answer 3

i agree with @YOLO_KING

Answer 4

Sympatric speciation occurs when populations of a species that share the same habitat become reproductively isolated from each other. This speciation phenomenon most commonly occurs through polyploidy, in which an offspring or group of offspring will be produced with twice the normal number of chromosomes. Where a normal individual has two copies of each chromosome (diploidy), these offspring may have four copies (tetraploidy). A tetraploid individual cannot mate with a diploid individual, creating reproductive isolation.

Sympatric speciation is rare. It occurs more often among plants than animals, since it is so much easier for plants to self-fertilize than it is for animals. A tetraploidy plant can fertilize itself and create offspring. For a tetraploidy animal to reproduce, it must find another animal of the same species but of opposite sex that has also randomly undergone polyploidy.