Natural Selection Creation Assignment: Explaining Evolution with VISTA

In this assignment, you will write a brief essay explaining how a population evolves due to natural selection after a change occurs in its environment. You must use the VISTA rules (Variation, Inheritance, Selection, Time, Adaptation) to explain how the population evolves. You may choose one of the following options: 1) Create an organism on another planet, 2) Use a real species on Earth, or 3) Use a fictional creature. After your essay, you will make a slide presentation explaining how your population evolved to adapt to environmental changes.

Choose one of the three options below and write a brief essay (1-2 paragraphs) explaining how your chosen population evolves using the VISTA rules. Be sure to address each part of VISTA in your explanation. After your essay, create a slide presentation to explain how your population evolved to adapt to environmental changes.

Write a brief essay (1-2 paragraphs) explaining how a population evolves due to natural selection after a change occurs in its environment. You must use the VISTA rules (Variation, Inheritance, Selection, Time, Adaptation) to explain how the population evolves. Choose one of the following scenarios:

1. Make up an organism on a planet with life forms that are 'far, far away.' Describe the environment before and after a significant change occurs that leads to a change in the alien population.
2. Use a currently existing species on planet Earth and describe an environmental change and mutations that enter the gene pool that are beneficial or detrimental to the population.
3. Take a fictional creature (like a unicorn) and suggest a change in the environment and mutations that lead to a current species (like a horse) evolving into that fictional species due to natural selection.