Student Name: Michael

Natural Selection Online Lab

Instructions: Follow the directions on the lesson page to use the simulation to answer the following questions.

Introduction

1. What happens to the population size after one generation?

Population size after one generation without wolves or not limited food have 2 to 6 rabbits.
Its increase
2. What effect do the wolves have on the rabbit population from generation to generation?

Wolves effect rabbit population that make the rabbit population decrease because they are
hunter and eat rabbit to survive .

3. How many generations does it take until the dominant fur color appears?

One generations that can appear dominant fur color but they are with 1/6 in first
generations
4. Based on what this option reveals, what do you think a pedigree is?

Pedigree show alleles of brown rabbit and white rabbit when they process reproduction

5. What color fur did the parents of the brown rabbit you selected have?

The color fur the parents of the brown rabbit have brown or they have dominant mutations.

6. Which alleles did the rabbit you selected inherit from each parent?

Brown rabbit: F, and white rabbit: f

Virtual Lab

7. Which features are in the Lab that are not in the Introduction?

The features are in the Lab that are not in the Introduction is ear,teeth, and tough food.

8. Which two variables are displayed on the graph?

Variables in teeth have: short and long teeth. Variables in ears: floppy and straight ears.

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Natural Selection Online Lab

9. What is the population size of each generation? (Click the Data Probe option at the bottom left of the screen
to help read the graph.)

After 3 generations, we have 54 rabbits which have white color, straight ears and short
teeth.
10. How do the first 3 generations of the warm weather population compare to the first 3 generations of the
cold weather population?

We can compare the statics in the population chat that were shown in . So in first 3
generations of the warm weather and cold weather make they are not change populatiom.
It increase same value
11. What do you think will happen if the current cold weather simulation runs indefinitely?

It not change because there have only change enviromental factors so it's not effect with
their fur to protect harsh enviroment.
12. What happens to the population size? Why?

It's increase is the same way with warm weather and they are 480 rabbits in 5 generations
and nearly the bunnies taken over the world.
13. Which allele combination is the most common for the brown rabbits?

Ff or fF is the most common allele combination for the brown rabbits.

14. Is there another allele combination present or possible for brown fur? If so, why is it rare or not present
after 3 generations?

Yeah, could be but it is rare because the kind of mainly genetic is white rabbit so when
they are offspring, if have 1 generation, this generation have 1/6 or 1/24 have brown
rabbits.
15. What effect do the wolves have on the population? Why?

The wolves effect the population the white rabbit because they make decrease with white
rabbit make white rabbit have dangerous rate and brown rabbit is very much .
16. Choose 10 brown rabbits randomly and record their genotypes. What percent of each genotype for the
dominant trait exists in the population?

We have 3 types genotype of brown rabbit: If I random, I have

FF:4/10= 40%
Ff: 3/10= 30%
fF:3/10=30%

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17. What effect do the wolves have on the population? Why?

Wolves affect the population of white rabbit that don't have or not much white rabbit
because they make decrease rabbit but white color is mainly.
18. Which mutation and environmental factor did you choose? Why?

I set the cold weather. First, I give 3 generations that they have anything to growth. But in
the generation 4, I set up with tough food and wolves hunter because I want to test how
the food of rabbits is not good enough and wolves hunter that what happens in 5
19. Run your simulation for 5 generations. Then, briefly describe the results of your simulation and how it
generations
models competition.

I have result in three generations first have 54 rabbits which 45 white fur and 9 brown fur,
45 straight ears and 9 floppy ears, and 45 short teeth and 9 long teeth. But after 4
generations,
Analysis: they have only 18 rabbits which 18 white fur, 18 straight ears, 10 short teeth,
and 8 long teeth after wolves hunter and food is tough. At generation 5 and already
20. Provide a specific example from the virtual lab of each part of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution by writing the
generation 6, they have only 7 rabbits alive which 7 white fur, 7 straight ears, 1 short teeth,
description in the table below.
and 6 long teeth.
Like camel in dessert, have limited resource and harsh
Competition
enviroment. Although in there have limited plant for their
meal, but the harsh enviroment give they develop with
their body have nutrition replace they eating plant make
they not drink or eating in many days.

Differential Some animals that living with warm weather that their
reproduction is very well, not lack harsh enviroment lik
Reproduction
lion, tiger, or elephant.

Overproduction Some like fish, frog or alligator, they reproduction with

many eggs .

Like rabbit that we learn so if we have white rabbit and

Variation
brown rabbit, we can make new variations with brown
rabiit but little bit or type of rabbit have long teeth, floopy
ears. We can imagine that we have 2 white rabbit so they
offspring , 5 white and 1 brown, but rabbit have long
teeth is 5 and floopy ears is 5.