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  • Adaptive radiation
  • Species
    A famous example of adaptive radiation is that of the Galapagos finches.The evidence for speciation formerly was found in the fossil record by tracing successive changes in the morphology of organisms.
  • Columbiform
  • Evolution
    This process of rapid divergence of multiple species from a single ancestral lineage is called adaptive radiation.Many examples of speciation by adaptive radiation are found in archipelagoes removed from the mainland.
  • Cambrian Period
    The beginning of this remarkable adaptive radiation has been used to divide the history of life on Earth into two unequal eons.
  • Henry Fairfield Osborn
    He introduced a highly successful instructional approach to museum display and was also an effective popularizer of paleontology.Osborn proposed the valuable concept of adaptive radiation, postulating that a primitive plant or animal in many cases evolves into several species by scattering over a large land area and adapting to different ecological niches.
  • Passeriform
    Two frequently cited examples of the adaptiveness of bills are the Darwins finches of the Galapagos Islands and the Hawaiian honeycreepers, Drepanididae (see evolution: Adaptive radiation).
  • Animal
    They probably form an adaptive radiation distinct from that of the coelomates, however. Some anatomic evidence suggests that the pseudocoelomates were all derived from gnathostomulid-like Platyhelminthes.
  • Radiation therapy
    Radiation therapy, also called radiation oncology, radiotherapy, or therapeutic radiology, the use of ionizing radiation (high-energy radiation that displaces electrons from atoms and molecules) to destroy cancer cells.Radiation has been present throughout the evolution of life on Earth.
  • Poison
    Radiation can be classified as either ionizing or nonionizing depending on its ability to produce ions in the matter it interacts with.Ionizing radiation is more toxic than nonionizing radiation.Radioactivity is the emission of radiation caused by the disintegration of unstable nuclei of radioisotopes.
  • Ovarian cancer
    External beam radiation resembles traditional X rays in that the radiation is directed from outside the body toward an internal target tissue.
  • Sievert
    Sievert (Sv), unit of radiation absorption in the International System of Units (SI). The sievert takes into account the relative biological effectiveness (RBE) of ionizing radiation, since each form of such radiatione.g., X-rays, gamma rays, neutronshas a slightly different effect on living tissue.
  • Ultraviolet radiation
    Ultraviolet radiation, that portion of the electromagnetic spectrum extending from the violet, or short-wavelength, end of the visible light range to the X-ray region.Ultraviolet (UV) radiation is undetectable by the human eye, although, when it falls on certain materials, it may cause them to fluorescei.e., emit electromagnetic radiation of lower energy, such as visible light.
  • Atmosphere
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