Dr. Alex Young would like to know about your progress in solving the mystery about the rough-skinned newts. In the space below, answer the Chapter 1 Question: What caused this newt population to become more poisonous? Use what you have learned so far to consider these claims:

Claim 1: Individual newts became more poisonous because they wanted to.
Claim 2: The newt population became more poisonous because of something in the environment.
Revised Claim 2: The newt population became more poisonous because the snakes in this environment caused poison to be an adaptive trait

Choose one or more claims to support with evidence and reasoning. You may also want to explain why one or more of the claims is definitely not correct.

Be sure to use some of the vocabulary words you have learned so far:

adaptive trait
distribution
environment
non-adaptive trait
population
trait
variation

whoaw guy this is a lot of work

1. The newt population became more poisonous because the snakes in this environment caused poison to be an adaptive trait.

The newts in this context, the more toxic in the new population, did not make the newts more poisonous because they can't control how poisonous their characteristics are. Since the new population has a high variation in the poisonous traits, when newts is introduced to snakes it will most likely be inexistent or less common, as the distribution of features shifts to high levels of poison, adaptive traits, low levels of poisons, non-adaptive traits, and medium levels of poison. This is important because when snakes enter the context of this new population, they become predatory to the newts and eat the newts, causing the distribution of features to become more frequent so that newts with adaptive features of more Poison can live longer and reproduce more, while newts with non-adaptive features of less poison become less prevalent and can not live much.

Explanation:

I tried to use the vocab

cells use diffusion to get substances in and out of themselves. that diffusion will occur across the cell membrane or the outer covering of the cell. because we are talking about the surface of the cell, surface area and volume are  important factors here. as a cell increases in size, its surface area and volume increase as well.  we call that the surface area to volume ratio (sa: vol).  but the catch is that  volume increases at a greater rate than surface  area. in other words, as a cell gets bigger, the sa: vol gets smaller. so a really small cell like bacteria is mostly cell membrane (surface) with very little contents (volume). a really big cell like an egg, is mostly insides with a super thin membrane. so what ends up happening is that the cell cannot efficiently diffuse all of the stuff it needs in/out to survive. therefore cell size is limited to about 100mm. so how do we make organisms bigger than 100mm? cells divide! by dividing and becoming multicellular, organisms are able to grow!   check out the diagrams i attached to see the effect of sa: vol. i hope this ! good luck!