Activity 1: Complete the Concept.

Directions: Fill out the table below with the necessary information for each species concept. Write your answers in your notebook/on a separate sheet of paper.

Species

Concept

Description Advantages Disadvantages

Typological

species

concept

Organisms that are classified

in the same species if they

appear identically by morphological (anatomical) criteria

The relative simplicity of this species concept makes it most widely used, mostly for plants.

Cannot be applied in all cases.

Biological species concept

Ecological species concept

Phylogenetic species concept​