The tendency of individuals to choose mates who are like themselv...

Question

The tendency of individuals to choose mates who are like themselves is called                   .
a. natural selection;
b. sexual selection;
c. assortative mating;
d. the founder effect;
e. random mating

Accepted Answer

Hello everyone. And in today's video we have the following problem. So blank assertive mating is a tendency to shoes made with similar characteristics. And I want you to pay attention to these terms of similar characteristics because it's going to help us decide on the answer choice. While the tendency to choose mates with the similar characteristics is referred to as black assertive mating. So like I said, these two terms of the similar characteristics and similar characteristics are what is going to help us eventually decide on an answer choice. And if we look at the answer answer choices, all of our answer choices are either positive or negative assertive mating. Now when we think of similar characteristics and we look at positive and negative, we think more of a positive trade because we're talking about similar, these two organisms are similar so they perform positive assertive meeting. So that is going to be how we fill out the first one, the second one we have this similar characteristics. So it is a negative tendency. So it's going to be negative assertive meeting. And so that is the way that we're going to think about it and we're gonna fill out here negative authority meeting. And now the answer choice that correlates with these is going to be answer choice A and that is going to be the final answer to our question. I really hope this video helped you and I hope to see you on the next one

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