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1. What is natural selection? Why does it occur? Remember you need to write this in the 1-3-1 format. Include a topic sentence, 3 supporting sentences, and a conclusion sentence. 2. Do some traits allow individuals to enhance their reproductive success and survival? Remember you need to write this in the 1-3-1 format. Include a topic sentence, 3 supporting sentences, and a conclusion sentence

2006-10-27 03:13:14 · 3 answers · asked by darigrlfrnd 2 in Education & Reference Homework Help

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Here is some information about Natural Selection for you to put into a 1-3-1 format yourself:

The Galápagos finches provide an excellent example of this process. Among the birds that ended up in arid environments, the ones with beaks better suited for eating cactus got more food. As a result, they were in better condition to mate. Similarly, those with beak shapes that were better suited to getting nectar from flowers or eating hard seeds in other environments were at an advantage there. In a very real sense, nature selected the best adapted varieties to survive and to reproduce. This process has come to be known as natural selection.

Darwin did not believe that the environment was producing the variation within the finch populations. He correctly thought that the variation already existed and that nature just selected for the most suitable beak shape and against less useful ones. Some of Darwin's supporters ultimately described this process as the "survival of the fittest." This is very different from Lamarck's incorrect idea that the environment altered the shape of individuals and that these acquired changes were then inherited.

Here is some info about traits that allow individuals to enhance reproductive success and survival for you to restructure into the format you require:

Darwin identified 13 species of finches in the Galápagos Islands. This was puzzling since he knew of only one species of this bird on the mainland of South America, nearly 600 miles to the east, where they had all presumably originated. He observed that the Galápagos species differed from each other in beak size and shape. He also noted that the beak varieties were associated with diets based on different foods. He concluded that when the original South American finches reached the islands, they dispersed to different environments where they had to adapt to different conditions. Over many generations, they changed anatomically in ways that allowed them to get enough food and survive to reproduce.

Today we use the term adaptive radiation to refer to this sort of branching evolution in which different populations of a species become reproductively isolated from each other by adapting to different ecological niches and eventually become separate species.

2006-10-27 03:30:59 · answer #1 · answered by suctioncup83616 4 · 1 0

Natural Selection is the process by which nature takes the weakest of a species and allows them to die, while the stronger live and thrive and multiply.

Take the Tazmanian Devil for instance. The she-devil will give birth to 40 babies. Those babies have to make a journey to survive. They have to make it from the birth site, across the mother's belly, and find one of 4 teats. Only 4 of those babies will live, the others will die. This is done in the hopes that the 4 strongest and smartest will make it and live, and the weakest will die.

Or sperm, a man will deposit over a billion sperm, but there is only one egg. It is assumed that the race will end with the strongest and best sperm being the victor.

Nothing really makes it possible to enhance their reproductive sucess, but there are species that breed in the open, ensuring that their young will die, and those that breed hidden and secluded.. ensuring a better chance of survival for their babies. There are animals that lay hundreds of eggs.. and only a few will live. There are animals, such as humans, kiwi birds, and other animals that only have one baby at a time, because they protect them to adulthood.. and make sure that they survive.

Natural selection is like survival of the fittest.. let the best and strongest and smartest survive. All others.. wil perish.

2006-10-27 03:29:37 · answer #2 · answered by Imani 5 · 0 0

Since your first paragraph is the intro you could give a little history on printers to fill the space. Also name the printers and what type they are.

2016-05-22 00:37:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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