What was the peppered moth information all about? ect to evolution and this chap

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What was the peppered moth information all about? ect to evolution and this chapter? What was it trying toteach us with 6. Discuss the evidence for evolution... .ist and discuss as many of these pieces of evidence as you can recall. Which is the most valuable, in your estimation, to demonstrating evolution in action? 7. How do we distinguish a species? What's a population? Differentiate between allopatric and sympatric speciation. 8. List two common misconceptions about evolution and provide the rationale for debunking these misconceptions ale Misconception

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Ans 5:- Peppered moth is an European moth is widespread in Britain and Ireland it has typically white wings with black specks it also exists in various shades of brown or green with small line like appereance that resemble like a bark. The pepperedmoth is the best example used for the investigation of Natural Selection sometimes it is called as Darwin's moth. it is noticed that with the exploration of the industrialization in the towns and cities and because of coal mines and various other environmental factors caused the plants to change into black in colour and the pink colour of moth residing on the trees became easily visible to predators thus this moth started to turn into black colour and thus outnumbered the pink coloured moth, in cities the black coloured moth constituted about 85% of moth. Since the moths are short lived this evolution by natural selection was easily visible.

Ans 6:- the various evidences for evolution can be briefly written as:-

Fossil Evidence:- these are the remains of the dead living organisms of ancient period.

Anatomical structures:- body parts of one species resemble with the other soecies which indicates that the have evolved with time.

Molecular Evidence:- DNA and RNA similarities in the species.

Embryological evidence:- Embroyos of one species resemble with the other species indicates the relation.

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