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How is a single ancestral species able to diversify into several new species through adaptive radiation?
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Look to Darwin's finches to see how one species coming from the South American mainland to the Galapagos Islands could radiate throughout the many islands and change in size, color, feeding habits and beak size by adapting to the immediate environments and being subject to competitive exclusion pressures for territory and types of foodstuffs.
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What is the production of several species from ancestral species called?
adaptive radiation
What is the production of several species from one ancestral species called?
adaptive radiation =)
Adaptive radiation is likely to produce several to many?
Adaptive Radiation is likely to produce a cluster of species in a short period of time.
What has a single species that has evolved into several different forms that live in different ways has undergone?
Adaptive Radiation
What occur during periods of adaptive radiation?
Generally, evolution of several species occurs during periods of adaptive radiation. These new species have evolved to "adapt" to new environments created by changes like massive flooding around continents and changes to the sea floor.
A process in which a small group evolves into several different forms that live in different ways is called?
Adaptive Radiation pronounced(smeg-mah)
How is a single ancestral species able to diversify into several new species through radiation?
Look to Darwin's finches to see how one species coming from the South American mainland to the Galapagos Islands could radiate throughout the many islands and change in size, color, feeding habits and beak size by adapting to the immediate environments and being subject to competitive exclusion pressures for territory and types of foodstuffs.
What page in things fall apart is the ancestral feast?
This depends on the version of the book you have. There are several ancestral feasts mentioned, though it is not completely clear which feasts are ancestral feasts. Further, many feasts such as the Feast of the New Yam cover several pages, if not several chapters.
A small group of rodents have arrived on an island in the Pacific Ocean where no rodents are naturally found This small group may rapidly evolve into several different sub-species to take advantage o?
Adaptive Radiation
What is adaptive technology list several examples?
computers and electronics
What is the production of several species from one ancestral species?
a genus.
What is it called when several species are made from one ancestral species?
Evoultion.
