Question

1) In a population of lizards, 25 percent have dark coloring and 75 percent have light coloring. Over time, the environment where the lizards live becomes forested. The dark lizards can hide more easily than the light lizards because they blend in with the tree trunks. The lizard population changes into 80 percent dark-colored lizards and 20 percent light-colored lizards.What is this an example of?

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disruptive selection
natural selection
genetic mutation
genetic drift

Answer 1

[AI-generated answer — Bot GPT 3.5]

This is an example of natural selection. In this case, the environment (forested) favored dark-colored lizards, allowing them to survive and reproduce more successfully than light-colored lizards, leading to a shift in the population's color distribution over time.