Friday, February 8, 2008

Species

1 – Follow this link to The Loom and read through the article titled: Question of the Day: How Do You Get Crabs From a Gorilla?

2 – On a sheet of paper with your name, write down 3 questions that come to mind after reading the article. These questions will be considered a class work assignment and will be entered as a grade.

3 - Follow this link to the Evolution 101: Defining a Species

a – also read the page on Biological Species Concept

b – finish with the page on Other Species Concepts

4 – On the same sheet of paper from step 2 above, list all of the various species concepts. Then search the web to find examples of each concept. Your examples must be different from the ones presented on the Evolution 101 web site. Include both common and scientific names of the organisms.

5 – Hand in your paper.