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Adaptive Radiation
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-divergent evolution arises from a single lineage
-ex. Darwins finches |
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GRADUALISM VS PUNCTURATED EQUILIBRIUM
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Small morphological changes of long periods of time vs sudden appearances of new species
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taxa
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(taxon)
grouping of species(organisms) |
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5 kingdom system
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monera, protista, fungi, plantae, animalia
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6 kingdom system
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bacteria, archaea, protista, plantae, fungi, animalia
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3 domain system
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bacteria, archaea, eukarya
--> everything that is not bacteria is eukarya |
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HIERARCHICAL CLASSIFICATION
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-domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, gene, species
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Evolutionary Tree
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A diagram representation of hypothetica, evolutionary relationships among organisms.
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Evolutionary tree methods
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-traditional= common ancestry/ divergence
-cladistics= shared derived characteristics phonetics= numerical clusters of similar physical characteristics |