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Endemism and endemic taxa
restricted to one geographic area
Ex. Santa Catalina mahagony
Cosmopolitan distribution
global geographic distribution
Major faunal regions
1. Nearctic
2. Paleartic
3. Neotropical
4. Ehtiopian
5. Austrialian
Botanical geographic realms
1. Boreal
2. Paleotropical-African
3. Paleotropical-Indo-Malaysian
4. Paleotropical-Polynesian
5. Neotropical-South African
6. Australian
7. Antartic
Wallace's Line
boundary between Australian and Oriental regions
Egg-laying mammals
Ex.
1. Short-beaked echidna
2. Long beaked echidna
3. Duckbill platypus
Groups of mammals: Placental and marsupials
1. Placental
-born well developed
-longe gestation period
2. Marsupilas
-born underdeveloped
-pouch
Evolution of flowering plants
-Angiosperms are monophyletic, evolved from a common ancestor
-Monocots plants evolved from diocots
Musk ox- Neartic endemic
-Musk ox is a survivor from the ice age
-seemed to be locally extinct in Alaska but reintroduced in Canada and greenland
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Geo2:Chapter 10
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