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HOW CAN NEW SPECIES BE REPRODUCTIVELY ISOLATED FROM ORIGINAL POPULATION?

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If the new species has been formed because of reproductive isolation, they cannot interbreed to produce fertile offspring. Most often this reproductive isolation is assigned to the fact that different species have different number of chromosomes.

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