Natural Selection Via Predation You have several environment

Natural Selection Via Predation

You have several environments to choose from (rocky, desert, grassland, urban). The selective pressures that ants encounter is likely to be very different in these different environments – why do you think that might be? In this simulation, we’re going to be looking at the selective force caused by predators. Which phenotype(s) do you think will do the best in that environment? Which do you think will do the worst? What effect will this have on allele frequencies? In the desert environment, which phenotype and genotype do you believe will survive best?

Phenotype: Yellow      Genotype: AA

Which do you believe will be least successful?

Phenotype: Grey        Genotype: aa

B.In the grassland environment, which phenotype and genotype do you believe will survive best?

Phenotype: Green        Genotype Aa

Which do you believe will be least successful?

Phenotype: Yellow      Genotype: AA

Solution

This is because ants keep moving from one place to another and they dont stay at one place.Thats why selective pressures is different in different environment.

They will do best in grassland because its easy to stay at one place

They will do the worst in rocky regions as they dont stay at one place

desert survive best in:desert region phenotype with AA allele

least successfull :aa as it occurs in rocky land.