The area surrounding White Sands contains black volcanic roc

The area surrounding White Sands contains black volcanic rocks. It contains a lizard like the one in White Sands. What color do you think the lizards would be in the rocky areas? Explain your thoughts.

Solution

The area surrounding white sands contains black volcanic rocks. It contains a lizard like the one in white sands. The blackened -grayish color, the lizards would be obtained in the rocky areas because of natural selection & convergent evolutions of new traits are going to occur in the lizards living in rocky area. This is going to happen due to inheritance of \"the genetic variants of Mc1r (gene codes of melanocortin 1 receptor protein to promote skin dark melanin pigmentation) to favor environmental conditions finally to escape from predators so that this trait will become dominant in lizards living in rocky areas