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2. Types of Speciation, Evolution & Isolation

3. Currently there are 8.7 million species of “EUKARYOTES” -80% are still undiscovered
How did we end up with so many species around the world?

4. What is speciation? Speciation:
The formation of new and distinct species in the course of evolution

5. Allopatric Speciation
Types of Speciation
Allopatric Speciation
Definition: new species evolves as a result of geographic isolation

6. Types of Speciation Sympatric Speciation
Definition: new species evolves from single ancestor while living in same geographic niche (organism’s “place” in ecosystem)

7. Parapatric Speciation
Types of Speciation
Parapatric Speciation
Definition: new species evolves as a result of partial geographic isolation as a result of occupying a new/different niche

8. Types of Evolution Divergent Evolution
Definition: new species evolves from a common ancestor

9. Types of Evolution Convergent Evolution
Definition: unrelated species become similar as they adapt to similar environments

10. Types of Evolution Parallel Evolution
Definition: development of a similar trait in related, but distinct, species descending from a common ancestor

11. Types of Evolution Coevolution
Definition: influence of closely associated species on each other in their evolution

12. Analogous structures
Definition: structures present in different organisms that have the same function but are structurally different and have different origins

13. Homologous structures
Definition: structures present in different organisms that have the same underlying structure but may have different functions

14. Types of isolation Prezygotic Isolation
Definition: reproductive isolation preventing a zygote
Example: geographic, behavioral, mechanical

15. Geographic Isolation
Definition: When a population is divided into two or more smaller populations due to PHYSICAL BARRIERS.
This can occur when rivers change course, mountains rise, continents drift, or organisms migrate.
Example: Northern Spotted Owl and Mexican Spotted Owl

16. Behavioral Isolation
Defition: Two species do not mate because of differences in courtship behavior.
Example: Blue footed boobies (mating dance), birds (mating song), nocturnal versus diurnal

17. Postzygotic Isolation
Types of isolation
Postzygotic Isolation
Horse
Donkey
Definition: reproductive isolation that occurs after two species have mated
Example: hybrid mule offspring are infertile
Hybrid = Mule
Can NOT reproduce

18. Let’s practice! Get one white board per table

19. What Type of evolution is this?
The kit fox lives in the desert where its coat helps disguise it from its predators. The red fox lives in forests where its red coat blends into its surroundings.
Divergent Evolution

20. What Type of evolution is this?
Yucca flowers are a certain shape so only that tiny moth can pollinate them. The moths lay their eggs in the yucca flowers and the larvae (caterpillars) live in the developing ovary and eat yucca seeds.
Coevolution

21. What Type of evolution is this?
There are species, found in Australia, Africa, and America. Though not related, they all evolved the "tools" necessary to subsist on an ant diet: a long, sticky tongue, few teeth, a rugged stomach, and large salivary glands.
Convergent Evolution

22. What Type of evolution is this?
The woolly mammoth (extinct) and the modern elephant both share a similar structural appearance of their trunk and tusks. They share a common ancestor and developed similar traits.
Parallel Evolution

23. What Type of SPECIATION is this?
When Arizona's Grand Canyon formed, squirrels and other small mammals that had once been part of a single population could no longer contact and reproduce with each other across this new geographic barrier.
Allopatric Speciation

24. What Type of SPECIATION is this?
Some grass the grow around mines are tolerant of heavy metals in soil. Meanwhile, neighboring grasses don't live in polluted soil, but they occupy a continuous geographic population. The two grasses have evolved different flowering times (niche).
Parapatric Speciation

25. What Type of SPECIATION is this?
The apple maggot lays its eggs inside an apple, causing it to rot. As the apple falls from the tree, the maggots dig in the ground and emerge as flies later. The original hawthorn species still only lays its eggs in hawthorn apples.
Sympatric Speciation

26. What Type of ISOLATION is this?
The Red-legged Frog (Rana aurora, left) breeding season lasts from January to March.
The closely related Yellow-legged Frog (Rana boylii, right) breeds from late March through May.
Prezygotic Isolation

27. What Type of ISOLATION is this?
A zygote may form with union of sperm and egg from the two species, but the embryo dies after a few cell divisions. The genetic information from male and female parents is insufficient to produce a viable offspring.
Postzygotic Isolation

28. What Type of ISOLATION is this?
Viable hybrid is produced (often physically more vigorous than either parent), but is unable to reproduce (sterile). Ex: zorse, grolar bear
Postzygotic Isolation

29. What Type of ISOLATION is this?
In some snail species, the direction of shell coiling is controlled by a single (maternal effect) gene. Snails with left-coiling shells cannot mate with snails having right-coiling shells.
Prezygotic Isolation

30. What Type of STRUCTURE is this?
Similar function, different structure, different origin
Analogous Structure

31. What Type of STRUCTURE is this?
Same underlying structure, different function
Homologous Structure

32. Cladograms

33. Cladograms are used to…
Organize organisms based on evolutionary relationships (phylogeny).
In other words… who is related to who and where did we come from…

34. How are cladograms constructed?
Organisms are grouped together based on their shared derived characteristics (trait modified from the ancestral trait).

35. What do you know?
Using the cladogram, which animals have claws/nails? (Hint: 4)
Which animals have fur/mammary glands?
(Hint 2)
To what is the chimp most closely related to?

36. Look at the cladogram at the right
Look at the cladogram at the right. What conclusions can be drawn about the relationship between humans and chimps?
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37. How to read a Cladogram
This diagram shows a relationship between 4 relatives. These relatives share a common ancestor at the root of the tree.
Note that this diagram is also a timeline. The older organism is at the bottom of the tree.
The four descendents at the top of the tree are DIFFERENT species. This is called SPECIATION.
Stress that cladograms not only serve as a pictorial representation of lineage, but also as a snapshot in time.
Be sure to introduce the term SPECIATION. The four descendents are DIFFERENT species.
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38. The event that causes the speciation is shown as the fork of the “V”.
Branches on the tree represent SPECIATION, the formation of a new species.
The event that causes the speciation is shown as the fork of the “V”.
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39. Species B and C each have characteristics that are unique only to them.
But they also share some part of their history with species A. This shared history is the common ancestor.
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40. A CLADE is a group of organisms that come from a common ancestor.
If you cut a branch of the tree, you could remove all the organisms that make up a CLADE.
Students should be able to decide if a group of organisms form a clade.
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