Unit 8: Natural Selection
Chapter 2: Natural Selection and Reproduction
Lesson 2.1: Reproduction and Traits
Goal: Gather evidence to support or refute the claim that reproduction always creates individuals with adaptive traits.
Open the Natural Selection Simulation and open the mode: Reproduction Claims.
Press RUN to complete the data tables below.
Slow down and pause the Sim to carefully observe traits after reproduction.
Reset the Sim between trials.
If the ostrilope you are following gets eaten before it reproduces, select and follow a similar ostrilope.
Ostrilopes with non-adaptive traits:
Select and follow an ostrilope that does not blend into its environment (one that has a non-adaptive color trait).
Follow the ostrilope until it reproduces. Pause the Sim.
Observe and record the color-trait levels of both parents and the offspring in the data table on the next page.
Reset the Sim. Repeat the above steps for Trial 2