How does natural selection change the frequency of genes or traits over many generations? Biology students conducted an experiment mimicking genetic variation and coloration. Students used different colored beans to represent animals that might be prey: mice, for example. A student in each group was the predator: a hawk. Beans (mice) were randomly scattered on multicolored floor tiles, each color within four tiles. The hawk collected mice (beans) for 10 seconds. Mice not eaten reproduced. Three generations of data a shown in the table. All BUT ONE could be a reason for the color variation in the mice. That is A) meiosis. B) mutations. C) genetic variation. D) asexual reproduction.

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Zachery Hansen

10 August, 17:48

How does natural selection change the frequency of genes or traits over many generations? Biology students conducted an experiment mimicking genetic variation and coloration. Students used different colored beans to represent animals that might be prey: mice, for example. A student in each group was the predator: a hawk. Beans (mice) were randomly scattered on multicolored floor tiles, each color within four tiles. The hawk collected mice (beans) for 10 seconds. Mice not eaten reproduced. Three generations of data a shown in the table. All BUT ONE could be a reason for the color variation in the mice. That is A) meiosis. B) mutations. C) genetic variation. D) asexual reproduction.

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Alivia Lindsey · Answer 1

The answer would be D) asexual reproduction.

Asexual reproduction will produce a offspring that has the same genetic material with their parent. That mean the offspring will have the same genetic that code their parent color, thus their color is the same as their parent. Other option will allow the offspring to have different genes, so the offspring could have different color.