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Geographical isolation
• Geographic isolation is a term that refers
to a population of organisms that are
separated from exchanging genetic
material with other organisms of the same
species. Typically geographic isolation is
the result of an accident or coincidence.
It’s the separation by a physical barrier of
some sort.
• Ecological,
or habitat, isolation occurs
when two species that could
Marine iguana
interbreed do not because the
species live in different areas.
Seasonal (Temporal) isolation
• any variation in breeding
seasons that effectively keeps
two populations of organisms
from interbreeding