BIO 301M Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Western Spotted Skunk, Sexy Son Hypothesis, Greenish Warbler

50 views6 pages
11 Apr 2014
School
Department
Course
Professor

Document Summary

Males: if you don"t try and mate, you wont leave any offspring. Mutations not arise from demand; chance adaptions are compromises; either or. Such as more offspring or large offspring in rats historical constraints: bats wish they had light bones birds have but they haven"t been flying as long as birds have. 1910 after darwin continental drift and plate tectonics. Many ways to define a species: species concepts. What about different looking but don"t interbreed. Males can be annoying and females don"t really need or want them. Males still paly a big role and sex is important. The fish with spots were mostly the ones that were asexual and no the sexual ones. Evolution is a race; the red queen. After the drought the spots were only on the sexual fish and not the clones. Taking the asexual fish and putting them in the parasite pool with sexual fish, then the parasite went back to the asexual fish.