In Lake Victoria (the largest freshwater lake in Africa), researchers recently found that in one cichlid species, male fishes with brighter red coloration maintain large territories. Red males are at an advantage because female cichlids tend to choose males with brighter color and larger territory size. Assuming that red coloration is heritable, what do you expect would occur if some females of this species began to prefer male cichlids with blue coloration?

Cichlid is the fish variety found diversely in South America and Africa. They are primarily herbivores and feed on plants and algae. Cichlids mate both with single or multiple partners.

Speciation would occur if some females of this variety began to prefer male cichlids with a blue coloration. The population of blue colored fishes will increase.

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The population of cichlids with blue coloration increases.

Explanation:

If the female prefers blue colored cichlids, so they mate with each other and increase occurs in the population of blue colored cichlids and with the passage of time bright colored cichlids decrease in number due to less reproduction with female cichlids. So those cichlids becomes dominant in the lake to which more female mate and those which receive less female are less in number and having lower territory size.

1: most common garden plants prefer loam — soils with a balance of different-sized mineral particles (approximately 40% sand, 40% silt, and 20% clay) with ample organic matter and pore space. however, some plants grow better in sandy soils, while others are well-adapted to clay soils.

2: available water capacity is the maximum amount of plant available water a soil can provide. it is an indicator of a soil's ability to retain water and make it sufficiently available for plant use. available water capacity is the water held in soil between its field capacity and permanent wilting point.

3: it is the same for all living things (plants and animals). it also includes very tiny organisms that our eyes cannot see. they are known as microorganisms, and include viruses, bacteria and fungi.

answer: ice crystals in air

the water from the water body or another source of water gets evaporated as water vapor as an effect of heat on water. these water vapor rises in the upper layers of the earth atmosphere under high atmospheric pressure. the atmospheric pressure of these water molecules starts to decrease due to the effect of cold air. the invisible water vapor condenses into visible water droplets and ice crystals.these ice crystals and water droplets being less denser than the surrounding air floats on air as clouds.