BIO120H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Liana, Reproductive Isolation, Hadley Cell
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Nature is discontinuous: plants and animals fall into one of many discrete groups, although there is variation among individuals within a cluster, the clusters nevertheless remain discrete in. Morphological species concept: morphological species concept: the way in which we recognize species as a group of individuals that resemble each other more than they resemble members of other groups, e. g. Tiger defined as group including all asian cats with vertical black stripes on an orange body. In sexually dimorphic species, males and females can look very different: variation within an interbreeding group, e. g. Humans can be classified into few discrete groups based on eye colour: e. g. Populations that look different in different places: e. g. Inuit of canada people look different from people in south africa: north american song sparrow has been classified into 31 geographic races known as subspecies, cryptic species: different species that look either exactly or nearly alike.
