Complete the sentences about evolution in finches with the c

Complete the sentences about evolution in finches with the correct terms. Peter and Rosemary Grant and their students have studied the since decreased 1973 on the island of Daphne Major in the Galapagos Islands. During wet years, plants flourished and produce many seeds, but these seeds were eaten quickly during drought years leaving behind seeds as main source of food. They found that the average beak depth in the population following wet years and large in the population following droughts years. They suggested that change in beak depth was due to natural selection because beak depth of was to their parents. offspring to their parents.

Solution

1. Large ground finch and medium ground finch because the Peter and Rosemary studied finches on whole on the Galapagos island

2. Small, large because the smaller seeds are eaten quickly by the finches with smaller beaks and the larger seeds are left later for the survival which alters the population also.

3. Increased, decreased this is because they stated that the beak depth depended on the availability of food in the seasons.

4. Similar because of the inheritance of the genes from the parents.