Data Analysis:
The reason why the short neck turtles are affected, and are a part of a depleting population, is because of the evolution in the trees, food source. The trees are growing, and so are the bushes, and with short neck being ineffective in this environment, the short necks are evolving, and adapting. After three generations, we came to the newest, most recent generation, in which the short necks are on the verge of extinction, even though they posses the dominant trait, while the recessive long necks have grown in population.
If you were to only look at the genotype and not consider the environmental situation and circumstances, this case would seam odd, and out of the ordinary, but if you consider the fact that the food source has changed, it is obvious that the recessive and adapted turtles ill outlive the dominant short necks.
Conclusion:
As we look through the generations, and have a tortoise with a dominant trait who you would expect that you in an ideal situation as generations pass you would have a lot more of dominant trait tortoises, but in this example that wasn't the case since the environment changed in a way that does not suit the tortoises and the recessive trait ones had an advantage and therefore thrived
After repeating the "mating" procedure multiple times, and established several generations, you would asume that there would be more of the dominant short neck turtles, but this assumption would only be valid in an ideal situation. And since the natural environment is not idea, the assumption was wrong. In our experiment the exact opposite happened, the environment changed, leading the long necks to thrive and the short necks to disappear .
So we can conclude that the environment around a specie affects whether it will survive or not, because if the surroundings changed drastically and the creature doesn't have enough time to evolve it can die out. Through this we can also make the conclusion why evolving through generation to generation happens so the creature enables further survival.
The reason why the short neck turtles are affected, and are a part of a depleting population, is because of the evolution in the trees, food source. The trees are growing, and so are the bushes, and with short neck being ineffective in this environment, the short necks are evolving, and adapting. After three generations, we came to the newest, most recent generation, in which the short necks are on the verge of extinction, even though they posses the dominant trait, while the recessive long necks have grown in population.
If you were to only look at the genotype and not consider the environmental situation and circumstances, this case would seam odd, and out of the ordinary, but if you consider the fact that the food source has changed, it is obvious that the recessive and adapted turtles ill outlive the dominant short necks.
Conclusion:
As we look through the generations, and have a tortoise with a dominant trait who you would expect that you in an ideal situation as generations pass you would have a lot more of dominant trait tortoises, but in this example that wasn't the case since the environment changed in a way that does not suit the tortoises and the recessive trait ones had an advantage and therefore thrived
After repeating the "mating" procedure multiple times, and established several generations, you would asume that there would be more of the dominant short neck turtles, but this assumption would only be valid in an ideal situation. And since the natural environment is not idea, the assumption was wrong. In our experiment the exact opposite happened, the environment changed, leading the long necks to thrive and the short necks to disappear .
So we can conclude that the environment around a specie affects whether it will survive or not, because if the surroundings changed drastically and the creature doesn't have enough time to evolve it can die out. Through this we can also make the conclusion why evolving through generation to generation happens so the creature enables further survival.
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