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Natural Selection in Protected and Unprotected Populations

In this simulation, learners model two elephant seal populations and how they change over time. Learners start with cards representing a variety of seals. Each generation, some seals survive to reproduce, passing on their traits to new seals. The amount of variation in the protected seal population stays high, while the unprotected population becomes more limited by selective pressure. In the related activity, learners can graph their data about...

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Keywords:
Social Sciences, Theory of Natural Selection, Human Impact, NSDL, Biological Science, Ecology, Elephant Seal, Animals, Offspring, General, Earth System Science, Seal, Forestry and Agriculture, Populations, Life Science, Geoscience, Mathematics, Anthropology, Survival of the Fittest, Data Collection, Biodiversity, Living Things, Traits, Population, Mechanisms of Evolution
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Material Type:
Simulation
Date Added to MERLOT:
July 27, 2016
Date Modified in MERLOT:
November 16, 2020
Author:
Submitter:
Barbra Bied Sperling
Hispanic Serving Institution
Primary Audience:
Middle School, High School
Technical Format:
Website
Mobile Compatibility:
Not specified at this time
Language:
English
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No
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No
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Unknown
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