colors: black, white, andb the Foust finch. To hide from the predators, the beet
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colors: black, white, andb the Foust finch. To hide from the predators, the beetles hide on the bark of trees in their environments. If the number of trees with white bark was significantly greater than the number of trees with black or brown bark, what would be the effect on the predation of Mclver beetles by the Foust finches? Which of the five conditions of Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium would be violated in this situation? If a hurricane hit the forest where the Mclver beetles live-killing many, many of the beetles-what would be the effect on the distribution of the phenotypes of Mclver beetles that survive? Which of the five conditions of Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium would be violated in this situation?Explanation / Answer
McIver those are of different color hide from their predators by blending in with their respective bark color backgrounds. therefore white, black and brown color McIver hide in white, black and brown color bark tree respectively. White color McIver Darker have a higher fitness because of the presence of more white color bark tree as compared to dark colors; thus favoured by natural selection.
Five conditions are essential for the population to remain in hardy weinberg equilibrium are:
hence, the increase in white color McIver population showing directional selection. so, this situation violates the condition i.e. "no natural selection".
In the second case, less population remains due to hurricane (chance event) hits and extending the frequency of a character with small adaptive value. This random change in the alleles frequency arising by chance fluctuations is called genetic drift.
Again this situation, condition i.e. "no genetic drift" is violating and change in allele frequency takes place.
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