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Figuring out what species are is not as easy as one might think. Find out how biologists define species and how new species evolve.
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UC Museum of Paleontology Grade level:
9-12 Time:
30 minutes Teaching tips:
Student learning on this topic may be enhanced by class discussion. Concepts:
Correspondence to the Next Generation Science Standards is indicated in parentheses after each relevant concept. See our conceptual framework for details. - Present-day species evolved from earlier species; the relatedness of organisms is the result of common ancestry. (LS4.A)
- Speciation is the splitting of one ancestral lineage into two or more descendent lineages.
- Speciation requires reproductive isolation.
- Occupying new environments can provide new selection pressures and new opportunities, leading to speciation. (LS4.C)
- Our understanding of life through time is based upon multiple lines of evidence.
- Scientists use experimental evidence to study evolutionary processes.
- Speciation is often the result of geographic isolation.
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