· 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.