Ernst Mayr was responsible for ____

a. discovering new species atop New Guinea’s Foja Mountains
b. standardizing a two-part naming system
c. explaining the theory of natural selection
d. describing the biological species concept
e. identifying that all organisms contain DNA


ANSWER: d

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