Pathaway Flashcards
(13 cards)
species
a group of organism that is biologically ‘distinct ‘from others and evolving along lineage.
species concepts
-set of conditions necessary and sufficient to identify group of individuals as a species
reason we need a species concept
-taxonomy
-evolutiomary biology
-ecological & behaviorual studies
-conservetation
morphospecies
-organism -are classified by appearances ,morphological criteria
morphospecies (pros )
-a pratical approach that is widely understood by scientist and non-scientist
-used to classify fossil records
morphospecies (cons)
-not useful where species exhibit phenotypic difference (belongs to rings)
-not useful; when there is a lot of superficial phenotypic.ex(giraffe)
Biological species context
-species are groups of actually or potentially of actually or potentially interbreeding individuals which are reproductively isolated rom other (viable ,fertility ,offspring)
biological species (pros )
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biological species (cons)
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hermaphroditic
-species that can mate with anyone
Hardy-Weinberg
-a model that predicts gentoype frequencies
-The conditions; random mating, large population size ,No immigration ,Emigration ,Mutation.
Assortative mating
- mating pattern and a form of sexual selection in which individuals with similar phenotypes or genotypes mate with one another more frequently