Preview - Evolution Of Populations To Speciation (Advanced)

Introduction to the Computational Model

Here is a computational model of a population of pocket mice. 

The rules of interactions between the pocket mice are similar to the Hardy-Weinberg activity that you must have already done in class. 

Each clock tick in the model is a mouse-generation. In each generation, male and female mice move around randomly, search for a partner, and reproduce if they find a partner. The heritable trait that is modeled here is fur-coat-color of the mice. 

Explore the model and answer the questions below.

 

Questions

Please answer the questions below.

There are two fur coat colors, light and dark. Which of these is a homozygous recessive condition?  

Explain how you figured out the answer the the previous question.

There are two alleles A (dominant) and a (recessive). What would the phenotype be of the genotype 'Aa'?  

Explain how you arrived at the answer to the previous question.

Notes

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