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Read the two incidents given below.
Incident 1: A species of moth is preyed on by bats. Over hundreds of years, the moths develop a sophisticated pattern of flying when they hear the screech of a bat and which helps them escape danger. Other changes occur as well, when current moth mates with its ancestor moth, no viable eggs are produced.
Incident 2: A species of frogs is living in a pond near an earthquake fault line. An earthquake separates the frog population into two separate populations. After hundreds of years, the two population are not able to mate.

Based on the second incident, mating between two groups of frogs is not possible as they have now become different:

A
Populations
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Communities
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Species
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Organisms
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Amphibians
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Solution

The correct option is C Species
Species is a group of individuals that can potentially interbreed to produce fertile offspring. The geographical isolation of two population prevented gene flow among them and accumulation of genetic variation with time diverged then into two different species which are no longer able to interbreed.
So, the correct answer is option C.

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