AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -To understand how organisms evolve, scientists can track populations’ allele frequencies over time. If they differ from generation to generation, scientists can conclude that the population is not in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, and is thus evolving.

Detailed explanation-2: -This experiment tested natural selection, what could be another possible mechanism of evolution for the rabbits to evolve. Be specific. The rabbits could evolve and grow longer claws or maybe thumbs that would help them dig burrows more efficiently or even let them climb trees to stay away from predators.

Detailed explanation-3: -Much of the rabbit’s evolutionary history revolves around its domestication, resistance to pathogens, and the changes it experienced from human and environmental impacts. Research suggests that rabbit domestication occurred over thousands of years.

Detailed explanation-4: -Natural selection would affect these rabbits by making the populations each more adapt to eating the food source available. For example, if one island has mainly leafy greens as their food source, then the rabbits could develop more flattened molars to aid with the grinding of chewing.