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What happens if the rate of extinction in a clade is greater than the rate of speciation?
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What term describe development of new species and mass extinction?
Macroevolution The development of a new species is called speciation.
Which term best describes the result of a new species evolving from an existing species?
Extinction
What affect do humans have on speciation?
As part of the environment of other organisms humans can have great effects on speciation. Especially adaptive radiation. As we contribute heavily to the extinction of some species other species flow into those open niches and radiate outwards to possible speciation.
What is the relationship between environmental change speciation mass extinction?
Environmental changes can stimulate speciation by creating new opportunities for organisms to evolve and adapt to new conditions. However, rapid and extreme environmental changes, such as those associated with mass extinctions, can lead to widespread species loss and disruption of ecosystems, accelerating the extinction rates.
What is the process that keeps the number of total species on Earth from growing exponentially through speciation?
Speciation is the evolutionary process by which new biological species arise. The biologist Orator F. Cook seems to have been the first to coin the term 'speciation' for the splitting of lineages. Whether genetic drift is a minor or major contributor to speciation is the subject matter of much ongoing discussion. The process of speciation is often hastened when two formerly isolated groups are reunited.
What influence did speciation have on Darwin's development of Natural Selection?
The influence of providing an explanatory mechanism for what was obvious to Darwin; species arose and species went extinct.
Darwin's finches speciation how did the population separate?
The distance between the islands meant that the Fincehes on different Islands could not interbreed wich led to some extinction
Does somatic mutation cause speciation?
Somatic mutations, which occur in non-reproductive cells, do not directly lead to speciation because they are not passed on to offspring. Speciation typically involves genetic changes that accumulate in the germline, leading to reproductive isolation between populations. However, somatic mutations can contribute to phenotypic variation within a species and may influence evolutionary processes indirectly, but they are not the primary drivers of speciation.
The effectiveness of geographical barriers in promoting speciation is related to the?
The effectiveness of geographical barriers in promoting speciation is related to the extent of isolation they create between populations, which limits gene flow. Greater isolation increases the likelihood of genetic divergence between populations and the potential for speciation to occur. Other factors, such as the size of the populations and the duration of isolation, can also influence the effectiveness of geographical barriers in promoting speciation.
Speciation caused by change in the course of a river is an example pf divergent speciation?
Allopatric speciation.
Types of Speciation?
sympatric , allopatric and parapatric speciation
