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What is the production of several species from one ancestral species called?

The production of several species from one ancestral species is called adaptive radiation. This process occurs when a single ancestral species diversifies into multiple different species in order to adapt to various ecological niches.


What is it called when several species are made from one ancestral species?

Evoultion.


The evolution of an ancestral species into an array of species that occupy diverse habitats is called?

analogous structure


The evolution of ancestral species into an array of many spices that occupy diffret habitats?

A radiation event. Called adaptive radiation.


What term refers to such phenomenon of evolving different adaptive forms from ancestral species?

The term that refers to the phenomenon of evolving different adaptive forms from ancestral species is called divergent evolution. This occurs when two or more related species become increasingly different over time due to adapting to different environments or ecological niches.


Who came up with the theory that new species arise through the gradual transformation of ancestral species?

Charles Robert Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace discovered the process of evolution called natural selection by Darwin.


What in the scientific name for hemlock trees?

Hemlock tree are in the genus Tsuga, and there are several species. The Eastern Hemlock is called Tsuga canadensis, the Western Hemlock is called Tsuga heterophylla. There are several other species.


What is a sentence with the word species?

humans are part of incredible Species. The whole species is responsible.


Ancestral Puebloan peoples are also called?

anasazi


What Organs that are so reduced in size that they are just vestiges of homologous organs in other species are called?

Those organs are called vestigial organs. They are remnants of functional structures that were more developed in ancestral species but have decreased in size or usefulness in the current organism.


What is ancestral characteristics?

Characteristics that were present in the common ancestor of the entire group of organisms.This character state is called ancestral for the group as a whole.


A modified structure that is seen among different groups of discendants is called an?

A modified structure that is seen among different groups of descendants is called a derived trait. This trait has evolved from the ancestral form and is characteristic of a particular lineage or group of related species.