Speciation Assessment

Speciation Assessment

Option 1:

Make a poster or Powerpoint of a new species to science. The species should be completely your idea and should be totally new. In other words, it should not just be a new version of an existing species. Give your species a common name. You can include a scientific name if you want. Use three of the evolution terms listed below as bullet-point short statements to describe the evolutionary mechanisms that were in effect as your species evolved. Be creative. Illustrate your new species in a way that clearly demonstrates its adaptations to its habitat.

Once you have finished your poster or Powerpoint, write a three to five paragraph essay providing specific details of the evolutionary processes you chose to explain how your species evolved. You will need to have no fewer than three sources with a works cited section in APA format. Use citationmachine.net to create the works cited page. You may use Wikipedia for no more than one source.

Option 2:

Make a poster or Powerpointof living examples of species that demonstrate three of the evolution terms listed below. Each term should have a different species and you may not use species from your notes. The poster or Powerpoint should have images and bullet-point statements that specifically describe how the terms you chose affected the adaptation and speciation of each species.

When the poster or Powerpoint is finished, write a descriptive paragraph explaining, in more detail, how your chosen species evolved according to the evolutionary term that you chose for each species.

You will need to cite no fewer than three sources in a works cited page in APA format. Use citationmachine.net to create the works cited page. Use Wikipedia no more than once.

Terms:

Behavioral isolationTemporal isolationMechanical isolation

Prezygotic barrierPostzygotic barrier

Allopatric speciationSympatric speciation

Adaptive radiationConvergent evolution