Adaptive radiation

adaptive radiation
The evolution from a relatively primitive and unspecialized type of organism to several divergent forms specialized to fit numerous distinct and diverse ways of life, as occurred in Darwin's finches or the marsupials of Australia.
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Adaptive radiation often occurs when a species is introduced to a new ecosystem, or when a species can survive in an environment that was unreachable before.
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Adaptive radiation
Evolutionary diversification of a generalized ancestral form with production of a number of specialized forms by adaptation. See cladogenesis.
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Adaptive radiation. The evolution of new species or sub- species to fill unoccupied ecological niches.
Aerobe. A microorganism that grows in the presence of oxygen. See Anaerobe.
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Adaptive radiation
The evolution of new species or sub-species to fill unoccupied ecological niches.
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adaptive radiation The development of a variety of species from a single ancestral form; occurs when a new habitat becomes available to a population.
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Adaptive radiation of dinosaurs; insects abundant
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adaptive radiation
The emergence of numerous species from a common ancestor introduced into an environment, presenting a diversity of new opportunities and problems.
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Adaptive radiation is the notion that when a species enters a new ecological zone, for example, it has the opportunity to exploit this new zone in many different ways, and it's very true that once a new group of animals has become established, ...
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adaptive radiation Evolutionary diversification that produces numerous ecologically disparate lineages from a single ancestral one, especially when this diversification occurs within a short interval of geological time.
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Adaptive radiation
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Adaptive radiation. The evolution of new species or sub- species to fill unoccupied ecological niches. Aerobe. A microorganism that grows in the presence of oxygen. See Anaerobe. Agarose gel electrophoresis.
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Adaptive radiation: evolutionary divergence of members of a single phyletic line into many different niches. Allele: one of two or more different chemical codes possible for a given gene. Offer variation in a given trait.
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Nevo, E., 1991, Evolutionary Theory and process of active speciation and adaptive radiation in subterranean mole rats, spalax-ehrenbergi superspecies, in Israel, Evolutionary Biology, Volume 25, pages 1-125.
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radiation -- Event of rapid cladogenesis, believed to occur under conditions where a new feature permits a lineage to move into a new niche or new habitat, and is then called an adaptive radiation.
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