SYSTEMATICS LABORATORY ACTIVITY 4
SPECIATION
NAME:ASWIKA SANJAY KUSHVAHA SEC.: D3
DATE SUBMITTED: 30 NOV 2023 TEACHER: [Link] CHRISTIAN
DAVE
REMINNDER: ALL ANSWERS MUST BE IN CAPITAL LETTERS.
Purpose: To observe the mechanisms involved in the development of a new species.
Procedure:
1. Select randomly 3-5 of your friends or classmates to be your group.
List your Members: GRACE PHEBE, HASMITHA, SHIVANI, MAHATHI.
2. Your group will be isolated on an island (lab table) that has a unique environment.
Write out your habitat description. (You know how it feels like in the lab! 😊 )
Environment Description: A BODY OF LAND SURROUNDED BY WATER THIS ISlAND
ECOSYSTEM EVOLOVED IN LONG ISOLATION FROM NEARBY LANDMASSES AND
CONATIN UNIQUE PLANT AND ANIMAL SPECIES
3. As a group you must select and write down all phenotype characteristics (your
traits) that exist in your group that may improve your group’s survival on your island.
Remember you are limited to phenotypes that are in your group only!!! Think about
your traits that you may have that might help you survive. Think like Nature
would (clothes are not necessary)
Phenotypes that will increase survival: Phenotypes that will increase survival: 1 how to
find or distill fresh water
to swim ,to climb,plant or vegetable identification ,to build a shelter
4. Imagine that your group has been able to reproduce for 500+ generations (assume
no mutations occurred), describe the typical member of your population. (Create the
“perfect person” based on all of your phenotypes listed in #3!) Only use those traits
that you and your group have to create the perfect person!!
Physical Description: THE PERSON WE CREAT BECOMES CLEARLY FITTED AND
EASILY GETS ADAPTED TO THE SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT KNOWS HOW
TO SWIM CLIMB AND GETS ADAPTED EASILY
5. Now assume that many small mutations occurred over the next 500+ generations. If
a mutation improves survival in your environment it will be passed through future
generations. Use your imagination... anything that nature could potentially create using
DNA (no moving parts, like gun-hands!!)
List 6 - 10 visible mutations that would improve survival for your species: THE
CHANGE IN STRUCTURE OF GENE ,CAUSE ALTERNATION OF SINGLE BASE UNIT
IN DNA ,INCREASED THE LIKELIHOOD OF AN ORGANISM SURVING AND BEING
NATURALLY CHOSEN ,BROADENS POPULATION DIVERSITY,BRING ABOUT
EVOLUTIONARY CHANGES ,IMPROVES FITNESS
6. Now draw a picture of a typical member of your population following the 1000+
generations of mutations and natural selection that have occurred in this exercise.
Use the info from number 4 and 5 to make the most FIT individual.
Picture after 1000+ generations:
You can draw it on any materials available at your end. Capture and paste it on the space provided
below.
7. Do you think that your new population is genetically different from any of the other
populations in other group? Explain. SINCE NEW POPULATION HAS BETTER
ADOPTED TO THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE INCREASED IN THE DIVERSITY
EVOLUTION OF NEW MATERIAL THE NEW POPULATION ARE TRULY DIFFERENT
FROM OTHER POPULATION IN THE GROUP
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8. Do you think your populations could represent a new species? Explain.
YES OUR POPULATION COULD REPRESENT A NEW SPECIES DUE TO
SUDDEN HERITABLE CHANGES GETS ACCUMULATED OVER THE YEARS AND
EVETUALLY RESULTS IN NEW PHENOTYPES LEADING TO FORMATION OF
NEW SPECIES .