916-100-274 GENERAL BIOLOGY – ENVIRONMENTAL FOCUS
LAB-REPORT Course # BIOL 01112 2 CRN 21344 SPRING 2014
Evolution and Natural Selection.
The definition of what is EVOLUTION has been a factor of argument for many and many years. Scientifics, religious people, researchers and many other people have always have different opinions about this topic. It would be important to define what is evolution. Evolution is a change over time of a specie it could be an animal, plants, or any other organisms and factors such as the weather, etc. evolution is the change over time of behavior, physiological or anatomical of a species. When Evolution happens it happens to the entire population not only 1 or 2 individual; evolution is the change in genes over time. The theory of evolution explains how species change over generations, why organisms are well-suited to their environment, and why some organisms resemble each other. Evolution is called a theory because it is a well-tested explanation that unifies a broad range of observations. There are many scientifics that have done research about the evolution, but the one they call the father of the evolution is Charles Darwin for his many research about this theory. some of the topics he talks about are Artificial Selection and Natural Selection. About Artificial Selection, Darwin knew that humans had been selectively breeding organisms for especific traits. And for the second one is how some individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce must successfully.
We wanted to confirm the hypothesis of natural selection, we want to me sure that better environment- suited organisms survive and reproduce and eventually are the one who survive, we executed an experiment. With the help of the computer program EvoDots. In order to get this program just type on google “evodots” and the website
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