Speciation Flashcards
What parts of animals do not decay
Bones
What else shows creatures have existed ( 3 )
1/ traces, ie footprints
2/ burrows
3/ Absence of right conditions
Why cant the earliest creatures remnants be found
Lots of the living things were soft bodied
Why have many of the fossils be destroyed
geological activity
What can fossils show ( 3 )
1/ How new species are formed
2/ how new organisms arise
3/ How some species may became extinct
Why is there uncertainty of how organisms came to be
There is a lack of enough valid and reliable evidence
What are the reasons extinction occurs ( 6 )
1/ New disease 2/ Environment change 3// New competitor 4/ Catastrophe 5/ New predator 6/ Cyclical nature of speciation
what is the first step of speciation
species separated by barrier
What causes advantageous characteristics to be carried on
alleles
What is the definition of speciation
The species have become too different to interbreed