Phet Natural Selection

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Science

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9th - 12th Grade

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Practice Problem

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Medium

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NGSS

HS-LS3-1, HS-LS4-4, MS-LS4-4

Standards-aligned

Dan Boyle

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7 Slides • 10 Questions

Natural Selection Lab

Part 1 & 2

With Phet Simulator - https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/natural-selection

Multiple Choice

Click Add a Mate and let the program run. What happens?

It just keeps going

It stops running

It crashes

The bunnies take over the world

Check all boxes

Click Brown fur Dominant

Click Add a Mate

Run for 5 generations

Repeat

Multiple Choice

Which phenotype population is in the hundreds after 5 generations?

White

Brown

It changes

can not be determined

Multiple Choice

Look at this example pedigree. What had to happen for a brown bunny to be born?

A mutation

A brown bunny just appears

The genotype of white bunnies away have a dominant gene

It's a glitch in the Matrix

Check all boxes

Click Brown fur Recessive

Click Add a Mate

Run for 5 generations

Repeat

Multiple Choice

Which phenotype population is most abundant after 5 generations?

White

Brown

It changes

can not be determined

Multiple Select

Which are the most common genotypes for white fur? Choose one or more.

Cannot be determined

Multiple Select

Look at the highlighted brown rabbit's parents are both have white fur, choose one or more of the following are TRUE about the parents.

Mutants

Carriers

Homozygous

Heterozygous

Check all boxes
Click Brown fur Dominant
Click Snowflake Icon to change to winter
Click Add a Mate
Run for 3 generations
Click Pause
Go to next question

Drag and Drop

The most common phenotype is

and the most common genotype is

and

is the least common genotype.

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

White

Brown

Click the Sun icon to change to Summer
Click the box next to Wolves
Click play
Run until Generation 7 starts

Multiple Choice

What happen to the after the environment turned to winter?

The white bunny population decreased the brown trait disappeared completely

The brown bunny population decreased the white trait disappeared completely

The white bunny population decreased and the brown fur trait increased

The brown bunny population decreased and the white bunnies population stays the same.

Drag and Drop

The most common phenotype is

and the most common genotype is

and

are the least common genotypes.

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

Brown

White

Click the snowflake to change back to winter
Click play

Open Ended

Describe the phenotypes and genotypes and scientific explanation for the results. This questionis half the grade

Type response here

Natural Selection Lab

Part 1 & 2

With Phet Simulator - https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/natural-selection

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