speciation
IPA: spˈiʃiˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- (taxonomy) The process by which new distinct species evolve.
- (chemistry) The formation of different (inorganic) species (especially of ions) as the environment changes.
- (medicine, pathology) The determination of which species is/are present in a fluid or tissue specimen, bacterial culture, or viral culture.
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Examples of "speciation" in Sentences
- The criterion for speciation is in dispute.
- It is the role of genetic drift in speciation.
- Evolution describes the origin of species, as in speciation.
- His work was influential in the study of speciation in biology.
- It is a graphic to illustrate the observed speciation in the lab.
- The importance of recent ice ages in speciation: a failed paradigm.
- This was an early description of the process of geographic speciation.
- I wanted to include it in the intro version in the speciation section.
- But why bother with the way speciation occurs when the results are the same
- Interactions among quantitative traits are in the course of symaptric speciation.
- These are the speciation and extinction in the fossil record of North American mammals.
- Those macroevolutionary mechanisms that are involved in speciation and above fit right in with the theory.
- Ken Miller, if he really wanted to, could cite 'intelligent cause' to explain speciation – and then cite any and all of the mainstream proposals as mechanism.
- Although there are differences in the definition of species that complicate a claim of speciation, it has not been any part of my claim that speciation is excluded.
- That means that the same processes which result in speciation also result in the creation of different genera, families, orders, etc. (that is, "higher taxa" than species).
- The actual moment when a "daughter" species can (or will) no longer cross-breed with the population from which it sprang (the definition of speciation) is almost impossible to pinpoint, let alone to witness.
- If I understand front loading at all (please correct any misapprehension), the information necessary to produce speciation is already present from being pre-loaded and waiting for the appropriate moment to kick in.
- Alan Fox: If I understand front loading at all (please correct any misapprehension), the information necessary to produce speciation is already present from being pre-loaded and waiting for the appropriate moment to kick in.