Homework 8
Watch the video Natural Selection and the Rock Pocket Mouse and answer the questions below:
http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/making-fittest-natural-selection-and-adaptation
1. What is unique about the landscape of New Mexico’s Valley of Fire?
2. What color are rock pocket mice found on the sand?
3. What color are rock pocket mice found on the lava rock?
4. What rock pocket mouse trait(s) are influenced by predators?
5. How did dark fur colors in pocket mice originate?
6. How are pocket mice living on dark lava rock in different regions similar to each other? How are they different?
7. Explain the following statement: “mutations are random, but natural selection is not.”
