Watch the short video at the following website and complete the answers to the questions in the following document.
Here is the link to the video: The video is only about 10 minutes.
https://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/making-fittest-natural-selection-and-adaptation
There are only 11 questions that go along with the video.
Please complete them on the word document.
Watch this movie from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute BioInteractive Website:
“The Making of the Fittest: Natural Selection and Adaptation”
http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/making-fittest-natural-selection-and-adaptation
Answer the following questions:
1. Where are the scientists exploring evolutionary processes? Explain the geologic and geographic
environment.
2. What animal is used to illustrate the evolutionary process?
3. What is the problem introduced by geology on the animal?
4. How is the new color introduced in the population?
5. What is the goal of the lab work?
6. Explain how a genetic mutation occurs.
7. A mutation has the reputation of being a bad thing. Are all mutations bad? Explain.
8. Explain how a mutation led to a rapid change in the population of this animal.
9. Is evolution random? How about natural selection? Explain.
10. Explain adaptation in relation to the example in this video.
11. What proof do we have that the evolution of the animal in this video is not just an isolated incident?