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CHAPTER 25ORIGIN OF SPECIES
Prepared by
Brenda Leady,
University of Toledo
 
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Species
A group of organisms that maintains adistinctive set of attributes in nature
Macroevolution
Evolutionary changes that create new speciesand groups of species
Occurs by accumulation of microevolutionarychanges (changes in a single gene)
 
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Known number of species about 1.4million
Estimates of unidentified species rangefrom 2 to 100 million
Difficulty in identifying a “species”
A single species may exist in 2 distinctpopulations that are in the slow process of evolving into 2 or more different species
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