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When an existing population of organisms gives rise to two or more new species, the new species cannot effectively breed with one another. Which term is used to describe this phenomenon?
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When an existing population of organisms gives rise to two or more new species, the new species cannot effectively breed with one another. Which term is used to describe this phenomenon?

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reproductive isolation

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This should be Speciation.

Speciation is the evolutionary process by which reproductively isolated biological populations evolve to become distinct species.
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