The Common Buckeye Junonia coenia pictured at right is a com

The Common Buckeye (Junonia coenia, pictured at right) is a common species of California butterfly with large spots that resemble eyes on the back of its wings. It is not poisonous and commonly found in open-sunny habitats. The eyespots can be quite startlingly revealed when the Buckeye flaps its wings. The trait is fixed in this species, but other closely related butterflies can have much smaller eyespots or lack them all together. You suspect the eyespots are an adaptation because it seems unlikely that such a complex color pattern would evolve by chance. In a well-constructed paragraph (or two), describe how you could determine if Common Buckeye eyespots are an adaptation. You will be graded on content, writing style (grammar, word choice, sentence construction), and organization (logical flow, clear topic and concluding sentences). You can neatly hand-write in the space below or attach a typed answer to the end of this assignment.

Solution

The evolution of eye spots in Commom Buckeye -butteflies is mainly depends on the \"environmental factors\", predation-prey factors, mutations & these are going to get induced in the individual cellular genome either by migration or genetic drift. Sometimes, these genetic variations are leading to incidence of speciation. Individuals often develop favorable traits of these eyespots to escape from predators via natural selection & genetic variations in the successive generations with evolution of new traits in the new species as an evolutionary adaptation to attain adequate offspring fitness and to struggle for the existence.