Two populations of snails are allopatric, living in areas that have different compositions of soil types.The snails live in soil and are not very mobile.Researchers are interested in whether the populations have acquired different types of reproductive isolation.Which method would be best to determine if they exhibit temporal isolation?

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Temporal isolation refers to populations being active or reproductive at different times. The best method to determine if the populations exhibit temporal isolation would be to observe when each population is active in its natural environment. If they are active at different times, then they exhibit temporal isolation. Bringing the snails into the lab and observing their behavior may not accurately reflect their natural behavior in the wild. Counting the number of offspring produced by females from one population mating with males from another would not necessarily indicate temporal isolation, as other forms of reproductive isolation could also influence the number of offspring produced.

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