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What is adaptive radiation ? Give one example.

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**Step-by-Step Text Solution:** 1. **Definition of Adaptive Radiation:** Adaptive radiation is the evolutionary process where different species evolve from a common ancestral species, adapting to various habitats within a specific geographical area. This results in the emergence of diverse forms that are adapted to different ecological niches. 2. **Key Characteristics:** - It occurs in a specific geographical area. - Different species arise from a single ancestral species. ...
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  2. Write the features of Homo habilis and H. erectus.

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  3. What is adaptive radiation ? Give one example.

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  4. What is Industrial melanism ?

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  5. The above shown picture are beaks of a particular type of bird seen in...

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  6. What is meant by geological time scale? Why is it necessary to determi...

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  7. Homologous and Analogous Organs

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  8. What do you understand by the terms allopatric speciation and sympatri...

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  9. What is adaptive radiation ? Describes it by giving example of Darwin...

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  10. What is Miller and Urey experiment?

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  11. What is meant by industrial melanism ?

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  12. Differentiate between divergent and convergent evolution. Give one exa...

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  13. What do you mean by connecting links? Give one example.

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  14. Explain the meaning of 'ontogeny repeats phylogeny '

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  15. Define divergent and convergent evolution.

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  16. Write any two factors affecting Hardy Weinberg principle.

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  17. What are homologous orgars? State the kind of evolution they present.

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  18. What are analogous organs? State the kind of evolution they represent.

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  19. Are the thorns of Bougainvillea and tendril of Cucurbita homologous or...

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  20. What is significance of Hardy Weinberg's law?

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