User talk:Eva~enwiki

In this New York State Lab I learned all about Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection. By my experiment I was able to determine if I made an accurate hypothesis.

Environmental conditions act as selecting agents because they select which organisms, based on their traits, will survive and which will become extinct. Seed-eating finches exhibit a great number of differences in beak shapes and sizes. During ongoing competition for resources, some finches are successful and become more numerous, while less successful finches decrease in number.

In this lab, I learned how both adaptive radiation and geographic isolation can create a whole new species, completely different from the original. The numerous finch species on the Galapagos Islands that Charles Darwin studied are an excellent example of this. The birds with beaks that could not survive on the food provided on one island flew to another and after being isolated there, developed into its own species. Eventually, a different species of finch existed on each island. This lab replicated the means of forming a new species through adaptive radiation. If a beak couldn't survive on a type of seed, it moved to another island where there was a different source of food and either survived there, or became extinct.

By using seeds and beak types as the variables in the experiment, I learned how a new species is formed through the process of adaptive radiation. Within a species, individuals with variations and mutations that make them better adapted to the environment will survive and reproduce in greater numbers than those without these adaptations.

I thoroughly enjoyed this lab and learning about Charles Darwins theories and how they affected finches. This was such a great lab, it was even BETTER than the osmosis lab! I didn’t think anything could surpass that. Congratulations New York State for creating such an intriguing educational depiction of our environment’s sophisticated actuality!

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