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Match the type of microevolution with the example described below. Letters may be used once, more than once or not at all.A. genetic driftB. migrationC. mutationD. natural selection

Match the type of microevolution with the example described below. Letters may be-example-1
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• Peppered mohs vary from light to dark and the frequence of light and dark morths varies depending on the color of the trees in their environment.

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• D. Natural selection. ,The color frequency is related to the trees because whe the moths are a different color from th trees, they are more easuily eaten, so o,nly the mmore adapted moths, ,survive, and have ,offspring,.

• A group of birds moves to a new patch of forest and begins to breed with the existing poplation that currently lives in that forest.

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• B. Migration. , The group that arrives at the new patch of forest has, moved or migrated, and brings ,new genetic information, to the population living there previously.

• A small group of whte-tailed deer croosses the frozen water of Lake Michigan and establishes a new population on a remote island. The alleles present in the gene pol of the pfounder population differ from the populationpresent in the rst of Michigan. A

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• A. Genetic drift ,(founder effect)., When a small grup o indviduals splts from the main population and sestablishes anew new one, this new popultion hasjust a s ,smallample of the alleles f,rom ththe original population, and just by, random chance(genetic drift), differetnt ,alleles will be fixated, in the new population

• Colorful lizards living on brown leaves are most often eaten by predators.

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• D. Natural selection. ,As with the moths, the lizards with a more different color than their environment are moe prone to be eaten, so they don't reproduce and those colors don't remain in the poulation.

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