Breeding Bunnies

• My original hypothesis was that if a trait survives from its natural selection, there is a possibility that this trait will be more frequent and appear over the next generations.

•  No changes are needed, my hypothesis was correct.

• The dominant alleles are the rabbits with thick fur and the recessive alleles are the rabbits with sparse fur. Both alleles remain almost equal during each generation.

• In the first generation, both dominant and recessive were equal in number with 50 each.

• Immigration and emigration affect the population and the gene frequency. Maybe the rabbits with thick fur might run slow and get hunted down while the rabbits with sparse hair might be able to run faster and survive. This might affect the gene pool also because if the gene pool decreases, the population will decrease and will reduce the chances of biological fitness and sometimes lead to extinction. If the gene pool increases, the chances of survival are higher.

• My results are most likely to be different than from the other groups because the location affects the survival of the rabbits (top and bottom of the mountain) and survival of heterozygous and homozygous is different (but there was no comparison in class).

• The results of this stimulation are an example of evolution as it demonstrates how specific specie will adapt to its habitat and atmosphere with maybe undergoing mutation over a period of time and also on the basis of survival of the fittest.