Journal 4 Please compose your answers to each of the questions below for Week 4 as you read the designated chapters in your textbook

Journal 4

Please compose your answers to each of the questions below for Week 4 as you read the designated chapters in your textbook. Make sure you number your answers as the questions are numbered, and identify the chapter.

The assignments are due by Sunday of this week.

Chapter 15: Principles of Evolution

Describe the evidences that support the theory of evolution, be specific.

Chapter 16: How populations Evolve

1. Define “equilibrium population”.

2. Outline the conditions that must be met for a population to stay in genetic equilibrium.

3. Could an equilibrium population exist in the real world? Why or why not?

Chapter 17: The Origin of species

1. According to the Biological Species Concept, what is a species?

2. Describe the process of speciation

3. Briefly describe the following:

a. Geographic isolation

b. Ecological isolation

c. Temporal isolation

d. Behavioral isolation

e. Mechanical incompatibility