If you have performed a cross-fostering experiment, you would have evidence that sexual imprinting had occurred if the subject later displayed a mating preference for
A) a same sex individual from the conspecific species.
B) a same sex individual from the host species.
C) an opposite sex individual from the conspecific species.
D) an opposite sex individual from the host species.

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Sexual imprinting involves an organism developing a preference for the characteristics of a particular individual or species that it is exposed to at a young age, often used to explain mating preferences. In a cross-fostering experiment, if the subject shows a mating preference for an opposite sex individual from the host species, it indicates that sexual imprinting has occurred, as the subject has developed a preference for the species it was raised with, rather than its own species.

If You Have Performed a Cross-Fostering Experiment, You Would Have