Species Flashcards
(22 cards)
How can we tell if organism are different species?
Can’t produce offspring
Undergo natural selection and evolve differently to the point they are different species and cat reproduce means
Reproductively isolated
Divergent evolution means
Same species grow apart in a likeness due to different pressures
Convergent evolution means
Different species become more alike due to pressure being same
Pre-zygotic barriers
Prevent fertilization
Ex of Pre-zygotic barriers are (4)
1) Temporal
2) Ecological
3) Behavioral
4) Mechanical
Temporal
When two species mate diff times
Ecological
Two diff habitats
Behavioral
Different courtship
Mechanical
Physical differences
(Small dog with Big dog ex)
Barriers that affect after an embryo is developed
Post-zygotic barriers
Examples of Post-Zygotic barriers (3)?
1) Hybrid inviability
2) Hybrid Infertility
3) Hybrid breakdown
Hybrid invisibility means
Offspring is produced but fails to develop
Hybrid infertility
Hybrid fails to produce gametes
Hybrid breakdown
F1 can make offspring but F2 generation can’t develop properly
Little evolution is called
Punctuated equilibrium
Gradualism means
Slow evolution away from each other
Species rapidly diversifies
(ecological niches)
Adaptive radiation
Two types of speciation?
1) Allopatric
2) Sympatric
Separated by geographical barrier
Allopatric speciation
When new species form randomly within population
Sympatric speciation
Extra chromosomes
Polyploidy