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Harry - Apply - Natural Selection With Peppered Moths

The document outlines a simulation exercise on natural selection using peppered moths, focusing on how color affects survival rates. It highlights that light-colored moths are more likely to survive in light forests, leading to an increase in their population over generations. The absence of predator pressure would result in a balanced population of both light and dark moths, as neither color would have a survival advantage.

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Harry - Apply - Natural Selection With Peppered Moths

The document outlines a simulation exercise on natural selection using peppered moths, focusing on how color affects survival rates. It highlights that light-colored moths are more likely to survive in light forests, leading to an increase in their population over generations. The absence of predator pressure would result in a balanced population of both light and dark moths, as neither color would have a survival advantage.

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Apply- Natural Selection with peppered moths

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You're going to run a simulation of a bird trying to eat peppered moths of different
colors in different forests.

1.) Insert a picture of your graphed results from the simulation below.

2.) What trends do you see in your graphs?


- Light-colored moths made up 67% of the population.
- Dark-colored moths made up 33% of the population.

3.) Explain how the different color alleles and phenotypes affect survival of the
moths.
- Light moths blend in better in a light-colored forest, so birds don’t see them
as easily.
- Dark moths stand out more, so they get eaten more often.
- Over multiple generations, the allele for light color moths would become
more common.
4.) Use the moths as an example to explain natural selection in your own
words.
- Natural selection means animals with helpful traits survive longer and have
more babies. For instance, birds eat moths they can see easily. Over time,
more moths will have the color that helps them hide better.
5.) What would happen to the moth's coloring phenotype if there was no
predator pressure.
- Without birds eating them, both light and dark moths would survive at
equal rates. There would be no advantage to one color, so both colors
would stay balanced in the population.
6.) Using the data table given to you by your teacher, create a graph showing
the frequency trends over 10 generations.

7.) Then copy and paste your graph below, make sure that you have a
detailed title and labeled axis.

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