Biology-Adaptation and speciation have different causes. T or F

Question

Biology-Adaptation and speciation have different causes. T or F

Answer 1

This statement is false.

To understand the relation between Adaptation and Speciation, start from the basic concept of Species.

Specie is the basic unit in the classification of life.

To survive in vast environmental and geographical changes, species need to adapt to the changes or we can say adaptation leads to survival of species with some distinct characters, and adaptation occurs because of gene mutation. Thus, Adaptation favor variations in species.

Moving to Speciation; Speciation means formation of new and distinct species in the course of evolution. It involves splitting of a single evolutionary lineage into two or more genetically independent lineages.

In short; Adaptation is a central component of any Speciation

Answer 2

This is false! Although adaptation and speciation are both part of the pathway that leads to biodiversity, and they are both caused by natural selection.

Consider the definitions of both terms. Adaptation is the process of organisms adjusting to their environments, or sometimes even to a specific niche within that environment. Natural selection for genetically inherited adaptive traits over time leads to a greater amount of the population consisting of those in the particular gene pool for those traits.

Eventually, an organisms may have undergone enough adaptation that it is no longer able to reproduce with a member of the species from which it originated - in other words, speciation has occurred, and the new organisms is considered a different species than its origin.