Spectation Flashcards

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What is a species?

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A group of similar or the same organisms that are capable of interbreeding and produce an offspring

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What is spectation?

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The process where biological species arise and can happen when two populations are reproductively isolated from one another.

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How can they be isolated?

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behavioral, structural, or biochemical traits that prevent them from reproducing. They can be completely different species because of their ecological conditions and behvaiors.

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What are the modes of spectation

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Allopatric spectation (geographically isolated/physically isolated) and sympatric spectation (evolution of populations with the same geographic area into seperate species)

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What is adaptive Radiation?

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When a single species evolves into a number of closely related species in one spectation event.

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