Evidence of Common Ancestry Flashcards
diagram used to represent hypothetical relationship of organisms
Cladogram
The six different coat patterns in living species of felid:
flecks
small blotches
blotches
rosettes
stripes
uniform
Iberian lynx coat pattern
Flecks
Jaguarundi coat pattern
Uniform
Snow leopard coat pattern
Rosettes
Tiger coat pattern
Stripes
First to use phylogenetic tree
Charles Darwin
holds that speciation occurs following division of a single population into two geographically separated populations that do not exchange genes
allopatric speciation
shows diversification over time
Evolutionary tree
Ensatina ring species: Central valley
E. oregonensis
E. picta
E. xanthoptica
E. platensis
E. eschscholtzii
E. croceater
E. klauberi