a founding population of lizards arrives on an island. which type of isolation would most likely result in…

Answer:

geographical

Brief Explanations:

Geographical isolation occurs when a population is separated by a physical barrier (like an island). This separation can lead to genetic divergence over time as the isolated population (lizards on the island) experiences different environmental pressures, mutations, and genetic drift compared to the original population. Eventually, these differences can accumulate to the point where the isolated population can no longer interbreed with the original population, resulting in the formation of a new species. Temporal isolation involves differences in breeding times, anatomical isolation is not a standard major isolating mechanism in this context, and behavioral isolation is about differences in mating behaviors (not as directly related to an island - founding population scenario as geographical isolation).