Analyze the experiment and answer the questions in the worksheet.

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MODULE 1
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During the first part, I grouped the lizards according to appearance, basically their colors and also noting if it is able to camouflage with its surroundings, but I changed this afterwards because I already considered the size of toepads, tail length, and hindleg measurement.
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Twig anoles are lizards who inhabit branches and twigs of different sizes and twig anoles have adapted to this by having short legs to be able to provide movement in such a limited walking space.
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Species that are a part of the same ecomorph would have the same characteristics as a form of adaptation to their environment like the selae of trunk-crown anoles needed for more stability when moving up in the canopy leaves.
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Ecomorphs are those that belong to the same habitat, enabling them to have the same adaptations according to the needs in their environment. Those trunk-ground anoles have long legs because of the need to traverse extensive grounds.
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Ecomorph refers to the animals in the same habitat condition which has the same adaptations but can be of different species or distantly related, while species refer to closely related with the same structure and has the ability to interbreed.
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An example would be trunk-crown anoles that have big toepads that are covered with selae enabling them to have more grip on smooth leaves above the canopy.
MODULE 2
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In this module, the lizards were identified using the phylogenetic tree.
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The body type of lizards is not determined by how closely related they are but is based on the similarities in the habitat that they are in.
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It can be concluded that the ecomorph determines the characteristics of the lizard and not the region or island they are in. Their adaptation depends on their habitat. For example, twig and trunk-ground who are both from Hispaniola have different characteristics.
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Convergent evolution happens when similar traits are independently developed as a form of adaptation to their habitat or environment. This applies to the Anolis lizards where Anolis sheplani and Anolis occultus are from different islands but have the same ecomorph and are both twig-anoles with similar characteristics as having short legs.
MODULE 3
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There should be a lack of lizards in the experimental islands to facilitate the observation of ecomorph and eliminate other factors that might affect the experiment. It will be able t...