Graded Assignment Lab Report 1. Data Tables Lizards with Short Legs Generation Number of Individuals Born Distance Traveled (cm) F1 F2 F3 Totals Lizards with Long Legs Generation Number of Individuals Born Distance Traveled (cm) F1 F2 F3 Totals 2. Briefly describe how and why natural selection took place in this lab. Give a general explanation from the beginning to the end of the lab. 3. Imagine that, after natural selection has acted on the lizards for many years as it did on the population in the lab, the state of California set aside a large wildlife preserve for the remaining population of orange-throated whiptail lizards. How might the increase in habitat affect the population of lizards?

According to Charles Darwin, natural selection is based on the survival of the fittest, or that the species adapts according to the environment in order to survive in that environment, what would have happened to the lizards is that in the laboratory they underwent a different adaptation to that of their habitat which were forced to change their anatomy, this is a problem if these lizards were thrown into their "natural environment" as they are adapted to the laboratory environment, ideally the lizards would develop in the field or space where they will develop and grow throughout their lives.

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or where there are no discrepancies between their natural habitat and their artificial habitat (laboratory)