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Natural Selection Model 2: Make a prediction

Flagella help a bacterium to move and thus increase its chances of being near food before its eaten by other other bacteria. However, a bacterium has to incur some cost in terms of energy that it needs to spend to make and maintain a flagellum.

Make a prediction about which phenotype will survive after you run the model with limited resource conditions.

Questions

Please answer the questions below.

Which of the following phenotypes will survive if you run the model (with 40% resource distribution around the central point) until only one phenotype survives?

You may choose more than one options if you think that the results will be different in each simulation run.

Phenotype with 1 flagellum
Phenotype with 2 flagella
Phenotype with 3 flagella
Phenotype with 4 flagella
Phenotype with 5 flagella
Phenotype with 6 flagella

Explain the reason for your answer.

Notes

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