1. The habitat of one species of tropicalfish is red coral reefs. The large majority of the fish in thispopulation are red. A few individual fish carry a mutation thatprevents the production of the red pigment; as a result theseindividual fish are white. The temperature of the ocean where thesefish live gets warmer and warmer over a 10 year period, and as aresult the coral is bleached and turns white. Use what you havelearned about natural selection to explain how this bleaching eventmay have affected the evolution this fish population (not includingpossible direct effects of warmer temperatures on the fish).Include the following terms in your explanation: differentialreproduction, beneficial trait, allele frequency, selectionpressure, evolution.
1. The habitat of one species of tropicalfish is red coral reefs. The large majority of the fish in thispopulation are red. A few individual fish carry a mutation thatprevents the production of the red pigment; as a result theseindividual fish are white. The temperature of the ocean where thesefish live gets warmer and warmer over a 10 year period, and as aresult the coral is bleached and turns white. Use what you havelearned about natural selection to explain how this bleaching eventmay have affected the evolution this fish population (not includingpossible direct effects of warmer temperatures on the fish).Include the following terms in your explanation: differentialreproduction, beneficial trait, allele frequency, selectionpressure, evolution.
