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Documente Cultură
and Biodiversity
Year 10 Science
Mr G Langhans
Advantageous
characteristics
=
Increased survival
=
Increased likelihood
of reproduction
Disadvantageous
characteristics
=
Decreased survival
=
Decreased likelihood
of reproduction
THEORY OF
EVOLUTION
Question
Antibiotics have been used to fight off
harmful bacteria for over 60 years.
What do you think has started happening?
BIODIVERSITY
Biodiversity is the
variety of all living
things.
Plants
Animals
Bacteria
Fungi
Geographical Isolation!
A population is split and the different groups
experience different environmental conditions.
Different conditions means different genes are
favourable.
The groups slowly change over many generations until
they are different species. SPECIATION.