AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Adaptive radiation is the evolutionary divergence of members of a single ancestral line into a series of different niches or adaptive zones.

Detailed explanation-2: -When significant evolutionary change occurs, the theory proposes that it is generally restricted to rare and geologically rapid events of branching speciation called cladogenesis.

Detailed explanation-3: -“Adaptive Radiation refers to the adaptation of an organism that enables them to spread successfully or radiate into other environments.”

Detailed explanation-4: -Adaptive radiation is the rapid diversification of a single lineage into many species that inhabit a variety of environments or niches and differ in the morphological and/or physiological traits required to exploit these environments (1–4).