Concept explainers
To analyze:
The evolutionary pattern of lizard.
Introduction:
Evolution can be defined as the change in the heritable characteristics of an organism in a species over many generations. Evolution is due to natural selection. The heritable characteristics that change are the characteristics that are passed on from one generation to another. The process of evolution has given rise to the biodiversity at every level of organization of biology or
Explanation of Solution
A pattern of evolution gives evidence of
Therefore, the pattern of evolution can be the ancestral lizard inhabited in Florida, migrated to various islands and then due to various environmental and geographical patterns the speciation was caused.
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