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    Natural Selection Lab.

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    This document contains instructions for students to complete a simulation on natural selection using bunnies in different environments. It includes two tasks: Task 1 has students run a simulation with bunnies in a equatorial environment, introducing predators over multiple generations. They observe the population becomes mostly brown bunnies as brown fur helps them blend in. Task 2 has students run the simulation in an arctic environment. Here, the population becomes mostly white bunnies, as white fur helps them blend into the snow. The simulation shows how natural selection leads populations in different environments to evolve different dominant traits over generations, based on which traits help individuals survive and reproduce more successfully.

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    Natural Selection Lab.

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    This document contains instructions for students to complete a simulation on natural selection using bunnies in different environments. It includes two tasks: Task 1 has students run a simulation with bunnies in a equatorial environment, introducing predators over multiple generations. They observe the population becomes mostly brown bunnies as brown fur helps them blend in. Task 2 has students run the simulation in an arctic environment. Here, the population becomes mostly white bunnies, as white fur helps them blend into the snow. The simulation shows how natural selection leads populations in different environments to evolve different dominant traits over generations, based on which traits help individuals survive and reproduce more successfully.

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    This document contains instructions for students to complete a simulation on natural selection using bunnies in different environments. It includes two tasks: Task 1 has students run a simulation with bunnies in a equatorial environment, introducing predators over multiple generations. They observe the population becomes mostly brown bunnies as brown fur helps them blend in. Task 2 has students run the simulation in an arctic environment. Here, the population becomes mostly white bunnies, as white fur helps them blend into the snow. The simulation shows how natural selection leads populations in different environments to evolve different dominant traits over generations, based on which traits help individuals survive and reproduce more successfully.

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    Natural Selection Lab.

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    This document contains instructions for students to complete a simulation on natural selection using bunnies in different environments. It includes two tasks: Task 1 has students run a simulation with bunnies in a equatorial environment, introducing predators over multiple generations. They observe the population becomes mostly brown bunnies as brown fur helps them blend in. Task 2 has students run the simulation in an arctic environment. Here, the population becomes mostly white bunnies, as white fur helps them blend into the snow. The simulation shows how natural selection leads populations in different environments to evolve different dominant traits over generations, based on which traits help individuals survive and reproduce more successfully.

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    Name:_________________________________ Date:_________________ Period:________

    Is Natural Selection Fur-real?!


    LO1: Students will be able to understand how individual characteristics affect survivorship of
    species (natural selection) by manipulating variables including physiology and environment.
    (10th)
    LO2: Students will be able to understand how natural selection drives the process of evolution by
    running simulations in PhET. (10th)
    Instructions

    Google Search PhET Natural Selection Simulation

    Click Run Now

    Manipulate variables available in the dashboard of the program to edit traits, selection
    factors, and environment.

    Get familiar with the program. Add friends, add a food source/predators, add mutations,
    ect

    Complete the tasks below and turn in.


    Task 1:
    a) Select dominant and recessive traits.
    b) Select for food to be available.
    c) Select equator environment.
    d) Let the simulation run for a few generations, then introduce the predator factor.
    e) Repeat step d multiple times.
    Question: After running the simulation for multiple generations, what do you notice about the
    population of bunnies? What is driving the observation you observed? As more and more
    generations of bunnies are born, are more desirable or undesirable traits being passed on (relate
    this to fitness: the ability to produce offspring that survive themselves to reproduce)?
    The population will be mostly brown fur due to blending in with the environment even if
    the brown fur were recessive. The white rabbits were eaten more frequently by the wolves,
    and therefore not passing on the white fur genes.
    Task 2:
    a)
    Repeat steps a and b from Task 1.
    b) Select the Arctic environment.
    c)
    Repeat steps d and e from Task 1.
    Question: After running your second simulation of bunnies, what do you notice about the
    population in the Arctic environment? Do you notice any differences from your first simulation?
    Formulate a hypothesis why you are seeing a difference (or not).

    Name:_________________________________ Date:_________________ Period:________


    The population will be mostly white fur also due to blending in with the snow. Short tails
    were also more common due to less heat loss (short tail is not a required answer). The
    brown rabbits were easily spotted by the predators and were not able to pass on their
    genes as frequently.

    Analysis:
    Review your notes from the simulations between the Arctic and Equator simulations.
    Reflect over your results, and think about these populations in relation to Natural Selection.
    Question: If you have a population of bunnies with 50% having brown coats and 50% of the
    bunnies having white coats, would one color of bunnies be more fit in the Arctic environment?
    How does the survival of the bunnies explain evolution by natural selection?
    The survival of the rabbits showed that fitness depends on the environment. In this case, the overall
    color of the environment favored a similar coat color. White bunnies in the arctic (or brown
    bunnies at the equator) survived and reproduced better, passing on the genes for that coat color to
    the next generation, and so on. Eventually the population becomes almost entirely one color. This
    change IS evolution.

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