· What selection pressures made those adaptations crucial to it’s survival?
Writing Assignment/ Lab #1 (500 word minimum, quoted or plagiarized material not counted).
Survival and Adaptation
Your assignment:
Open the link to link to Darwin’s Survival game:
Start with clicking “Learn about Natural Selection”
Continue on to “Survival Game”
Complete at least 3 Survival Games in which your creatures survive for a million years.
Write a 500 word essay with Part 1 and Part 2 labeled:
· Part 1: Describe one of the games in which your creature survived for a million years:
· What particular adaptations were crucial to it’s survival?
· What selection pressures made those adaptations crucial to it’s survival?
· Part 2: Use your imagination to draw and describe an organism of your own creation that has specialized adaptations.
· Make sure the specialized adaption’s features that you describe are also visible (and/or labeled) in your drawing.
· Include a description of the environmental or social context(s) that would have selected for your creature’s specialized adaptation.
· Use Darwin’s 3 postulates in your description of how the specialized adaptation evolved.