I can't get a good purpose and hypothesis! The teacher keeps telling me to fix it. Help! Ok so what we did was there were 6 groups of people, and each group had different tools like tweezers and forceps to pick up cat food. We all had to get as much as possible. There were 5 rounds, and after each one, the teacher told one person out of the team with the least food to join a different team
Heres my new one: If variations affect an individual's chance of survival, the the people with the least beneficial variations will not be able to survive.
2007-03-11 15:40:28 · 7 answers · asked by omygosh 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Myhypothesis: If variations affect an individual's chance of survival, the the people with the least beneficial variations will not be able to survive.
2007-03-11 15:41:20 · update #1
Please help. I really want to get a good grade on this lab
2007-03-11 15:42:23 · update #2
What is vsd?
2007-03-11 15:45:07 · update #3
purpose: to elucidate the effect of changes in the environment on a population, and what role variations play in natural selection
2007-03-11 15:48:31 · update #4
Note: I'm a freshman in high school
2007-03-11 15:50:06 · update #5
The hypothesis is in the standard fom. it does have an if and then, but there was a typo, so on here its 2 "thes"
2007-03-11 15:52:49 · update #6
And I meant to say "without the beneficial variations" instead of "with"
2007-03-11 15:54:03 · update #7
Never mind the last note
2007-03-11 16:16:50 · update #8
if, then, because
this is the standard form for a hypothesis
2007-03-11 15:44:53 · answer #1 · answered by jake 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since variations affect an individual's ability to secure limited resources (food), then the people with the most advantageous variations are most likely to survive and reproduce--the individuals with the least advantageous variations will have the least likelihood of survival.
(remember, an organism could barely survive if it was especially hard worker for example, but its chances of surviving and reproducing are probably low--it is always a question of probablity, there are no guarantees
Variation is a given--just look around at your classmates--and it is absolutely essential in the survival of the fittest by natural selection!! It is because of the variations that some organisms are better able to obtain limited resources (which are limited because organisms have a tremendous capacity to reproduce their numbers--Thomas Malthus)
The variation is "natural" and that's why its Natural selection--artificial selection works too; just ask a farmer who breeds for the sweetest tasting tomato, or the horse breeder who wants to breed an animal that can win the Kentucky Derby
2007-03-11 22:42:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pupose would be that animals that didn't survive, couldn't pass their traits on, because they died. Meaning the animals that did surrvive, were actually better @ running away, gathering food, etc.
Hope this helps! :)
2007-03-11 22:46:11 · answer #3 · answered by Lockheed 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ooohh, I did something like this before! 7th grade Evolution!! =] That last one sounds like a good hypothesis. I would stick with that one.
2007-03-12 00:43:35 · answer #4 · answered by Sabrina K 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The better the tool the more food you can pick up. try a scoop.
2007-03-11 22:45:25 · answer #5 · answered by Catman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well ur purpose does not tell us what the main part of ur experiment is...like the main idea of the project....and ur hypothesis is not wat u think about wat would happen
for example...u can write which tool u predict would pick up the most cat food
2007-03-11 22:45:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds good to me...............
2007-03-11 22:43:16 · answer #7 · answered by Nagitar™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋