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Workshop N°4. Natural Selectionkansckanmskcankas

This workshop focuses on understanding natural selection and its effects on evolution through simulations and case studies. Students will explore concepts like fitness and adaptation, design experiments, and analyze the impact of various factors on animal populations. Additionally, they will investigate real-life examples of natural selection and its implications in contemporary contexts.

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Workshop N°4. Natural Selectionkansckanmskcankas

This workshop focuses on understanding natural selection and its effects on evolution through simulations and case studies. Students will explore concepts like fitness and adaptation, design experiments, and analyze the impact of various factors on animal populations. Additionally, they will investigate real-life examples of natural selection and its implications in contemporary contexts.

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AREA: Biology MEN GRADE: TENTH A B C D


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Topic: Natural selection
Professor: Lucía Villalobos Cano [email protected]
Student:
Development: May of 2025
Horizonte de Grado

“Asumo las implicaciones de mis creencias, conocimientos y valores para


fundamentar la construcción de mi proyecto de vida como ciudadano del mundo.”

Context: This workshop aims to gain deeper insight into the impacts of natural selection
on the evolutionary processes of living beings on planet Earth. With simulators and real-
life case studies, you will explore the mechanisms by which natural selection operates,
how it relates to biodiversity, and the various factors that influence it.

1. (20) You are going to work with Natural Selection Lab- PhET Simulation (Natural
Selection). In this simulator you will be controlling the mutations and
environment of a population of rabbits. Before starting, explore the simulator and
answer:

a. (2) What do the terms fitness and adaptation mean? What is the difference
between the two?
b. (2) What selection factors might affect an animal population besides the
ones used in this simulator?
c. (6) Create two hypotheses and design an experiment to test each one. Your
hypothesis will follow the following format where you fill in the blanks with
your own ideas and reasons. And you will assign a simple code (A, B) to each
hypothesis.

I hypothesize that ______rabbits will be _______ likely to survive under predation pressure
within the _____ environment, because they will be ____________.

A:

Experiment A:

B:

Experiment B:

***You must select two different types of phenotype mutations out of the three
options***
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For each experiment you must have a control (no mutation). For each of the experiments,
begin by adding a friend and a mutation. Wait until the F3 generation before adding the
selective factor. After adding the selective factor let the simulation run for another 3 or 4
generations. Use the population numbers from the chart to get your numbers for the
table, remember you can zoom in and out on the chart to get more accurate reads.

d. (3) Fill in the following chart:


Control Control Experiment Experiment
Code Phenotype Initial Final Initial Final Observations
population population population population

e. (7) Explain whether you proved each hypothesis or not and why. Remember
to explain using the data you generated with the simulator.

2. (10) According to the former experience, answer the following questions


a. Sometimes animals that are introduced into an area that they never lived in
before, out-compete and endanger resident species, why do you think this
happens?
b. If only one species is considered the "fittest", why do we still have so many
variations among species. Why do some birds have very long pointy beaks,
while other birds have short flat beaks?
c. How do you think diseases can affect natural selection?
d. How does this simulation mimic natural selection? In what ways does this
simulation fail to represent the process of natural selection?

3. (20) Dive into the web and choose a real-life case from the present day where
natural selection is at work.
a. Explain the context.
b. Identify the trait being favored.
c. Argue whether it is the result of human impact or not.

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