The movement of organisms away from their place of origin, called ____, can produce a ____ distribution, in which
closely related species live in widely separated locations.
a. fragmentation; continuous
b. vicariance; disjunct
c. vicariance; continuous
d. dispersal; disjunct
e. dispersal; continuous
ANSWER: d
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