NATURAL SELECTION & EVOLUTION (1)

Question 1

morphological series concept

Answer 1

defines species as groups of individuals that are morphologically similar to one another and are morphologically distant from other such groups

Question 2

biological series concept

Answer 2

defines a species taxon as a group of organisms that can successfully interbreed and produce fertile offspring

Question 3

phylogenetic series concept

Answer 3

concept of a species as an irreducible group whose members are descended from a common ancestor and who all possess a combination of certain defining, or derived, traits

Question 4

speciation

Answer 4

how a new kind of plant or animal species is created

Question 5

allopatric speciation

Answer 5

occurs when a species separates into two separate groups which are isolated from one another

Question 6

sympatric speciation

Answer 6

occurs when there are no physical barriers preventing any members of a species from mating with another, and all members are in close proximity to one another

Question 7

chronospecies

Answer 7

a species derived from a sequential development pattern that involves continual and uniform changes from an extinct ancestral form on an evolutionary scale