ln at least 200 words, proppse a scenario in which a population is evolving. Add the following, Identify the variants within your population, Explain how the variation in your population was generated, Describe your organism, Explain qhy the population is evolving and make a prediction about your population after observing 10 generation of offspring.​

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  1. A yellow lizard population living on an island with no predators
  2. A hawk was introduced to the habitat and starts preying on the yellow lizard because it is easier to see from the air
  3. Some of the lizards mutate their color from yellow to greyish brown so they can camouflage
  4. Yellow individuals keep being hunted, while brown individuals get to survive
  5. The following generations of lizards will have a higher proportion of greyish brown individuals and just a few yellow individuals.  
  6. Eventually, almost all of the lizards will be greyish brown individuals.

Explanation:

The scenario is the following.

A population of yellow lizards lives on an island where there is no natural predator. Males of the species use the yellow color to attract females in reproductive seasons. The brighter the males are, the better their genetic quality is. Females are also yellow, but not as bright as males.

A new hawk species was introduced into the island to control some farm pests. But this hawk species prefer to feed on the lizards. The yellow color of these animals contrasts with the dark background and can be easily seen from the air. So the lizard population suffers from significant predation affecting its size sharply.

Some of the lizards then suffer from a mutation and change their color from yellow to greyish brown, which turns to be better to camouflage on the rocks and get to survive. Individuals with greyish brown color get to reproduce at a higher rate than yellow individuals, who keep being hunted by the hawk.

Eventually, after many generations, the yellow individuals decrease to near zero in the population, while greyish brown individuals increase significantly, with males still being brighter than females.

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Natural selection is an evolutive force that can act favoring an allele or against it, according to how it affects the fitness of individuals. Natural selection selects beneficial alleles and increases their frequency in the population.

When many organisms in a population sharing the same trait die, it is because they did not have good fitness, so they were not adapted to the environment and its pressures. The alleles coding for that trait were not good for the fitness of the animals, so they do not get to survive.

These individuals die before reproducing, so they could not transfer their genetic charge to the following generation. Eventually, the alleles coding for the trait will decrease in the population, probably near zero. Natural selection is acting against this phenotype. Other alleles will be beneficiated, and their frequency in the population will increase.

This change in alleles frequency is what we call adaptation.

Natural selection results in adaptation, which means the increase of the aptitude phenotype. Aptitude is the contribution of each genotype to the next generation.

In many cases, adaptations can be correlated to environmental factors or selective pressures applied by other organisms or habitats.

Let us remember that a mutation is a change or alteration in DNI sequences that introduce new variants. Many of these are eliminated, but some of them might succeed and be incorporated into each individual. These mutations are the ones that have been selected by natural selection.  

So, in the exposed example, we are focussing on the lizards population.    

• The selective pressure or modeling environmental factor is predation by the introduced hawk.  

• The lizards´ response to predation is the survival of only those that carry mutations ⇒ greyish brown color  

• Natural selection benefits these mutations.    

• Greyish brown lizards survive and increase their fitness.


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