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Please answer the following questions in a 200-word response minimum. Try your best to reference the text I will message you privately for how to access the text book. Or you can access it at this link (it may take some time to load): https://vk.com/doc257194956_437096191?hash=744dc3a08c6c00873f&dl=fdb9fff13f8ef8f1b1
1. Pretend that you have just met someone who has never heard of “natural selection.” Explain to him/her how natural selection works. Use one particular type of organism as an example to illustrate your explanation.
2. What is biodiversity, and why is it important?
3. How does your textbook define a species? How do new species form?
4. How was the theory of evolution developed? What are some common misconceptions about the theory of evolution?Please use the link at Khan academy listed below to answer the question: https://www.khanacademy.org/science/biology/her
5. What role does natural selection play in evolution?What is the importance of biodiversity?Please use the link at Khan academy listed below to answer the question:
https://www.khanacademy.org/science/biology/her
Please participate (respond) to the classmates answers with POSITIVE notable and educational input. (200 word minimum Reponses)
1. Brooke: Natural selection is how a species’ genetic traits change over time due to their environment. Since mutations are responsible for different alleles (variations of genes) over time a species will have offspring that carry the genes that are most favorable for them to survive in their environment, which is why natural selection is often referred to as “survival of the fittest” I found this article that explains how a flowering plant in Africa grows a stalk to promote a specific bird to use it as a perch and visit the flower to feed. In areas where this bird is the flower’s main pollinator, the stalk is much bigger than in areas where the flower has several options for pollinators. The hardier stalk was originally a mutation that was inherited and the flowers without this mutation did not get pollinated because the birds were uncomfortable, so these flowers were unable to reproduce, allowing the flowers with the hardier stalk to produce more offspring and survive better, and the genotype that produced small flimsy stalks pretty much died out. This is a great example of adaptation, because the hardier stalk has helped the flower with reproduction. The flowers that are located in areas with multiple pollinators are able to reproduce with or without the hardier stalk gene, so natural selection does not affect them in this case.
2. Katherine: This is an interesting article regarding evolution. It actually explains the genetic basis of inheritance in regards to biology as we know it and what we do not know according to research that has been done. The facts as explained by Darwin, did not explain all of it from what I understand. What is being stated is that Darwin’s ideas were only part of the story of evolution. According to the article we as laymen may think this is ridiculous but microbiologist Carl Woese and a physicist Nigel Goldenfeld from the University of Illinois believe. They claim that this only applies to the recent phase of life ob Earth as we see it. It goes on to discuss vertical hegemony, lateral thinking and that the horizontal gene transfer. The article does get a little complex as you read on. The microbiologist Carl Woese claims the vertical hegemony is a simple case of scientific complacency. If we take Mendel’s genetics and combine them with Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection, we would in turn get what biologists refer to as modern synthesis. I would have liked it better if an animated video accompanied the article showing what exactly, they used to prove their theories.
3. Katherine: In order to explain to another person what natural selection actually means is that the process where the results in the change of an organism to the environment. That means that the reproduction changes in the genetic makeup or a change in the genotype. The frequencies in the gene tends to remain the same from one generation to the next when there are no changes or upset in the gene factors. One factor that can cause a disturbance would be if there was a mutation of one gene. This would cause the spontaneous changes in the gene frequency that would appear at a slow rate. There is also other things that can cause natural selection such as migration or a genetic drift. As far as the genetic shift is described, this would be a change that takes place from one generation to another. Migration would be where the frequency of the gene could be interbreeding from one species to the next. For example, we have a pure breed of animal such as a dog (cocker spaniel) or cat (Siamese) that breeds with a different breed. We would no longer have one pure breed of animal, we would have a mixed breed animal.