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226 ■ CHAPTER 12 Mechanisms of Evolution EVOLUTION Laboratory of Human Bacterial Pathogenesis at the National Institute of Aller ...

1980–84 19 1985–89 11 1990–94 11 1995–99 11 2000–04 4 2005–09 3 2010–15 8 Antibacterial drugs approved by the FDA "Each year in ...

228 ■ CHAPTER 12 Mechanisms of Evolution (^2) Unlike natural selection, is not related to an individual’s ability to survive and ...

Battling Resistance ■ 229 (b) Small mice cannot reach the seed shelf, and large mice are easily seen by hawks circling above. Me ...

Fast Lizards, Slow Corals The rapid evolution of lizards and the slow growth of corals offer clues about how species are born. ◆ ...

231 EVOLUTION 13 CHAPTER ADAPTATION AND SPECIES ...

232 ■ CHAPTER 13 Adaptation and Species EVOLUTION I n 1971, the United States was at war in Viet- nam, a gallon of gas cost 40 c ...

Fast Lizards, Slow Corals ■ 233 process of natural selection that enables a good match between a population of organisms and the ...

234 ■ CHAPTER 13 Adaptation and Species EVOLUTION its environment. In many cases, animals fail to adapt successfully. In fact, s ...

Fast Lizards, Slow Corals ■ 235 biological species concept, if individuals from the two populations of lizards can still breed a ...

236 ■ CHAPTER 13 Adaptation and Species EVOLUTION such as a river, a canyon, or a mountain chain, isolates two populations of a ...

Fast Lizards, Slow Corals ■ 237 around or swim extremely long distances. There are few physical barriers yet many separate, uniq ...

238 ■ CHAPTER 13 Adaptation and Species EVOLUTION carefully transplanting the corals, moving deep- water sea fans to shallow dep ...

Fast Lizards, Slow Corals ■ 239 different light and nutrient requirements, and organisms 15 feet below the surface receive a lot ...

240 ■ CHAPTER 13 Adaptation and Species EVOLUTION Another example of coevolution is the relation- ship between hummingbirds and ...

Fast Lizards, Slow Corals ■ 241 mixing in the past, yet there is no evidence that interbreeding is common; only a few rare hybri ...

242 ■ CHAPTER 13 Adaptation and Species EVOLUTION continue reproducing until they are 60 years old or more. So, while coral game ...

Fast Lizards, Slow Corals ■ 243 E. lucunter E. vanbrunti E. viridis E. lucunter E. vanbrunti E. viridis Egg Sperm from neither E ...

Insects 1,000,000 Plants 310,100 Arachnids 102,200 Fungi 99,000 Mollusks 85,000 Crustaceans 47,000 Fish 31,200 Roundworms 25,000 ...

Fast Lizards, Slow Corals ■ 245 THE QUESTIONS The Basics (^1) When two populations are reproductively isolated, what else must o ...