15.3 Evolution in 15.3 Evolution in ActionAction
StandardsStandards
CLE 3210.5.5 Explain how evolution contributes to the amount of biodiversity
CLE 3210.5.3 Explain how genetic variation in a population and changing environmental conditions are associated with adaptation and the emergence of new species.
How does evolution How does evolution work?work? Natural Selection can work in several ways:Natural Selection can work in several ways:
Convergent Evolution: the process by which unrelated species become more similar as they adapt to the same kind of environment
Divergent Evolution: the process by which two or more related but reproductively isolated populations become more and more dissimilar
Co-Evolution: the process by which two or more unrelated species evolve together because of a symbiotic relationship.
Convergent EvolutionConvergent Evolution
How it happens:How it happens:
Example:Example:
Two genetically different species adapt to the same environment in similar ways resulting in similar phenotypes.
Convergent Convergent EvolutionEvolution
Leads to Leads to analogous analogous structures:structures:
Divergent Evolution
How it happens:
Adaptive Radiation:
One species branches off into two or more different species due to changes in environment or behavior.
an evolutionary pattern in which many species evolve from a single ancestral species
Divergent EvolutionDivergent Evolution
Leads to Leads to homologouhomologous s structures:structures:
Co-Evolution
How it happens:When two different species are dependent on each other; if one changes the other must adapt or go extinct.
Artificial Selection
Natural Selection = environment determines desirable traits
Artificial selection = humans determine desirable traits
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Compare and contrast natural selection with artificial selection