Mutations don't make different species. The domestic rabbit can look like so many different things.. wool or flyback fur, 30"+ ear span to only 2" long depending on species. These are still the same species.. they can produce young that can also reproduce. There are other species or rabbits that do not cross breed with our domestic rabbit.. these are a different species. You don't get a new species through mutations, you simply get a different looking animal with all the same genetic material. Same with plants. Evolution doesn't make sense.. too much coming together. Like plants that need insects to pollinate.. what would have evolved first? After all it takes thousands of years... so the plant makes it's need for the bug, but the bug needs a few thousand years to get there = plant species is dead.
Same way as animals do: by genetic mutations giving rise to characteristics that give them a little better chance than the others to survive and reproduce. Over time those differences become more common in a particular group, and when thesome of all those differences is sufficiently great then you have a new species.
There are many different mutational paths that lead to speciation, but the most obvious one is a process called polyploidy, wherein a single seed is produced, with a mutation that gives it multiple copies of its parents entire genome. This produces a new species of one individual, that is completely infertile with its parent species, but is self fertile (can produce seeds by self pollination). That new species, then, goes on to evolves its own ways, completely isolated, reproductively, from its parent species. Some of our grain crop plants are polyploids of wild species, and are much more productive (of food we can use) than the wild species are.
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Mutations don't make different species. The domestic rabbit can look like so many different things.. wool or flyback fur, 30"+ ear span to only 2" long depending on species. These are still the same species.. they can produce young that can also reproduce. There are other species or rabbits that do not cross breed with our domestic rabbit.. these are a different species. You don't get a new species through mutations, you simply get a different looking animal with all the same genetic material. Same with plants. Evolution doesn't make sense.. too much coming together. Like plants that need insects to pollinate.. what would have evolved first? After all it takes thousands of years... so the plant makes it's need for the bug, but the bug needs a few thousand years to get there = plant species is dead.
Same way as animals do: by genetic mutations giving rise to characteristics that give them a little better chance than the others to survive and reproduce. Over time those differences become more common in a particular group, and when thesome of all those differences is sufficiently great then you have a new species.
Evolution is the result of spontaneous gene mutation which is random
coupled with non random natural selection.
There is heaps of other stuff ,some of which I am still trying to learn
about like (Stochastic genetic drift and what is it?)
But that's the easiest way I can explain it ,if you want to learn more
there is heaps of stuff on the web.
Tornadoes
The same way that animals do. Species diverge by natural selection.
Manipulations performed by the Flying Spaghetti Monster's noodly appendages.
Separate classifications are man-made concepts.
There are many different mutational paths that lead to speciation, but the most obvious one is a process called polyploidy, wherein a single seed is produced, with a mutation that gives it multiple copies of its parents entire genome. This produces a new species of one individual, that is completely infertile with its parent species, but is self fertile (can produce seeds by self pollination). That new species, then, goes on to evolves its own ways, completely isolated, reproductively, from its parent species. Some of our grain crop plants are polyploids of wild species, and are much more productive (of food we can use) than the wild species are.
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ever seen magnolia?
it has leaves, it flowers and it produces PINEcones.