Lecture 14.1 Specification Flashcards
Mutation
Is the only mechanism that produces new alleles
- Are random
Genetic Drift
A totally random event that causes alleles frequency in a popluation to change predicatably
- totally random
- reduces genetic variation (fewer alleles)
Founder Effect?
Bottleneck?
- a new popluation arises from the original population
- When a popluation decreases in variation due to climate/resources/catastrophy etc. then another popluation increases having fewer of the original population
Genetic Flow
The movement of alleles from one population to another
Speciation
Formation of new and distinct species
Population
An interacting group of individuals of a single species that occupy the same area at the same time
Species Concepts
Morphological Phylogentic biological
Morphological Species Concept?
group of organisms with a similar phenotype(look alike) are members of same speices Sometimes they do not look alike because of there environments new york bird
cryptic species
two or more distinct species that are mostly morphological indistinguishable different species look similar but are NOT the same species
Phylogenetic species concept
the smallest group of organisms that share common ancestor is a distinct species
biological species concepts
species are group of actually or potentially interbreeding natural population that can mate and produce fertile offspring
biological species concepts -ACTUALLY?
live in same place and actually interbreed
biological species concepts- Potentially
dont live in the same place but could interbreed
What mechanisms lead to reproductive isolation?
prezygotic reproductive barriers postzygotic reproductive barriers
Prezygotic barriers
act before fertilization to prevent fertilization habitat isolation temporal isolation