Biology-B6-Speciation

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Who worked alongside Darwin?
Alfred Russel Wallace
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Wallace had independently proposed what?
the theory of evolution by natural selection
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So Darwin and Wallace had decided to?
publish their findings jointly
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Wallace was mainly interested in how?
new species form
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What is speciation?
the development/formation of a new species
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This occurs when populations of the ______ species can ____ longer ______ to produce _____ _______?
populations of the same species can no longer reproduce to produce fertile offspring
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What causes the species to separate?
geographical barrier
(isolation)
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STAGES (SNAILS)
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Firstly there will be a _______ in an ______ that are able to _______?
will be a species in an area that are able to interbreed
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What then may occur?
such as?
geological activity
river changes course
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This causes the population of snails to?
separate into two groups
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The _______ on either side would be slightly ______?
conditions
different
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Therefore natural selection would _______ different ______ on each side?
would favour different alleles
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This is because there would be different?
desirable characteristics
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What may then occur?
geological activity
river changes course again
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This allows the snails to?
mix again
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However the _______ of the snails?
phenotypes
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Are so different that they can no longer?
reproduce to make fertile offspring
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The snails are now?
two different species
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