Kathleen Rose G. Sabio
Psyc 48-A
Date of Submission: June 30, 2017
No. of words: 619
1. How would you describe and differentiate natural selection from artificial selection? You may use examples from the episode to elaborate on your answer.
Natural selection is determined by natural processes such as factor of environment adaptation. The survival and reproduction acts naturally in a certain population. For natural selection, polar bear takes as an example for it can adapt a certain environment. Polar bears have brown and white colored fur which lives differently for the code of their own survival. On the other hand, artificial selection has the selection of natural variations in a population wherein the survival and reproduction is driven
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The study of differences in gene expression related to environment and experience called epigenetics. Epigenetic factors do not change your genes, but they do influence how your genes express the traits you’ve inherited from your parents. Epigenetic changes can persist throughout a lifetime, and the cumulative effects can make dramatic differences in how your genes work. Mutation causes the changes of genes such that withdrawal of a particular species to a more genetic characteristics.
3. Some people still believe that evolution is just an unproven “theory,” and point to the human eye as an example of why evolution cannot be true. Why is this so? What is the modern, evidence-based view of the evolution of the human eye, and how does it refute the misconception of evolution being just another theory?
There are many arguments and misconceptions about evolution. Science itself has different theories from time to time. But Charles Darwin believed that the evolution of the eye was of the process of natural selection. Early before the eye was just a round having small pinhole then later on develop as it has the lenses which allows to focus and see beautiful