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The document outlines a Natural Selection Online Lab with a series of questions and instructions for students to explore the effects of environmental factors and mutations on rabbit populations over generations. It includes questions about population size, the impact of wolves, allele inheritance, and observations from a virtual lab simulation. Students are required to analyze data and apply Darwin's Theory of Evolution to their findings.

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NaturalSelectionOnlineLabWorksheet (1)

The document outlines a Natural Selection Online Lab with a series of questions and instructions for students to explore the effects of environmental factors and mutations on rabbit populations over generations. It includes questions about population size, the impact of wolves, allele inheritance, and observations from a virtual lab simulation. Students are required to analyze data and apply Darwin's Theory of Evolution to their findings.

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Student Name:

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?

2. What effect do the wolves have on the rabbit population from generation to generation?

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

4. Based on what this option reveals, what do you think a pedigree is?

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

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

Virtual Lab

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

8. Which two variables are displayed on the graph?

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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.)

10. How do the first 3 generations of the warm weather population compare to the first 3 generations of the
cold weather population?

11. What do you think will happen if the current cold weather simulation runs indefinitely?

12. What happens to the population size? Why?

13. Which allele combination is the most common 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?

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

16. Choose 10 brown rabbits randomly and record their genotypes. What percent of each genotype for the
dominant trait exists in the population?

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

18. Which mutation and environmental factor did you choose? Why?

19. Run your simulation for 5 generations. Then, briefly describe the results of your simulation and how it
models competition.

Analysis:

20. Provide a specific example from the virtual lab of each part of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution by writing the
description in the table below.

Competition

Differential
Reproduction

Overproduction

Variation

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