Week 2 Flashcards

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clade grouping

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Is a grouping of organisms that reflect a branch of the evolutionary tree, grouping based on relatedness.

shared derived traits and genetic evidence.

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Grade grouping

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Grouping that reflects levels of adaptation or overall similarity and not on actual evolutionary relationships.
-Appearance and lifestyle

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sympatric primates

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When two species share the same habitat by dividing living space into nocturnal and diurnal activity niches

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niche partitioning

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The Process in which competing species reduce competition by using the environment diffrently

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Primate cultural transmission

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Macaques a juvenile washed a muddy sweet potato in the stream and this new food processing technique first spread throughout the community of macaques., over 30 years.
-Capuchin learned how to open cashews with a rock it is thought over generations

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