Ch.24 Flashcards
What is a species?
A group of populations whose members have the potential to interbreed in nature and produce viable, veritable offspring - but do not reproduce viable offspring with other groups
What are the two species concepts:
Biological species concept and morphological species concept
What is biological species concept?
Group of individuals that naturally interbreed and produce viable, fertile offspring
What is morphological species concept?
Group of organisms that share similar characteristics
- distinguishes a species by body shape and other structural features
What makes each of the species concepts easy to work with? Challenging to work with?
Observing and waiting for the species to breed, some may never, or other like bacteria dosen’t
what is a hybrid?
Offspring form mating between two different species
Ex: donkey (male) and horse (females)= donkey (not a species because it can’t breed/produce offspiring)
What is speciation? What are the two kind?
Gene flow is reduced in species or populations and develops into a new species
- allopatric speciation and sympatric speciation
What is allopatric speciation?
“Other homeland” gene flow is interrupted when a population is divided into geographically isolated subpopulations forming a new species
- Is caused by Geographic Isolation
What is sympatric isolation and what are the different mechanisms behind it?
Speciation occurs in populations that live in the same geographic area
- polyploidy
- sexual selection
- habitat differation
What is polyploidy and what speciation is it apart of?
Sympatric speciation
Is the chromosomal alterations in which the organism possesses more than two complete chromosome sets
- is a result of accidental cell division
- changes in chromosome number during meiosis (from 18 to 36 or 54) result in offspring not being able to mate with member of parental type
What is a result of accidental cell division?
Polyploidy
What is sexual selection?
Can lead to speciation
- when the females will choose the males with similar characteristics or appearances
What is habitat differation?
A subpopulation exploits a habitat or resource not used by the parent population
What is the mechanism to speciation?
Reproductive isolation
- allopatric
- sympatric
What is reproductive isolation?
The existence of biological factors (barriers) that impede members of two species from interbreeding and producing viable, fertile offspring