Diane Dodd raised different fruit fly populations on different food sources. She found that after about 40 generations the evolution of reproductive isolation was under way. The mechanism of evolution responsible for this was
A) natural selection.
B) genetic drift.
C) gene flow.
D) hybridization.
Answer: A
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