Female salmon build nests in gravel river bottoms to lay eggs, which are then fertilized by male salmon that approach and deposit their sperm over the eggs. This is an example of

A) copulation.
B) internal fertilization.
C) parthenogenesis.
D) spawning.
E) hermaphrodism.


D

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