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A biologist believes that two organisms are of the same species, even though they look different from one another. What would cause the biologist to come to this conclusion?

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The correct answer would be - they can mate or reproduce and produce fertile offspring.

Step-by-step explanation:

In the biological world, there can be certain species the might have different looking organism due to environmental condition such as weather, geographical change, and many more.

In such a case, The biological species concept help in determining if these organisms belong to the same species or not. According to this concept, different species are separated by pre and post-zygotic barriers and due to this they can not mate, or even if they mate there would be no fertile offspring.

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