Description Trait A:
medium-tip
Leaves are narrower toward the tips, but don't come to a full
leaves
point. Most of the water drains from the leaves.
Trait B: Leaves come to a sharp point, leading to thorough water
drip-tip leaves drainage from the leaves.
Trait C:
wide-tip
Water Huns onto the leaves and tends to pool in pockets at the
leaves
tips.
During natural selection, organisms with harmful traits are less
likely to successfully reproduce than organisms with beneficial
traits. Neutral traits don't improve or hurt an organism's
chances for survival. So, they tend to persist in populations
when environmental conditions are stable. If the environment
changes, neutral traits could become harmful or beneficial
depending on the situation.
In year 1, a population of rain forest plants has the following
distribution: 50% have medium-tip leaves, 25% have wide-tip
leaves, and 25% have drip-tip leaves. You will simulate three
years of this population: year 1, year 5, and year 10. How will the
trait distributinn most likely change over this time?