Transcript Variation in Eastern Gray Squirrels

Variation in Eastern Gray
Squirrels
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Background Information
Natural environmental pressures
Human influences on squirrel populations
Background Information
Squirrel Habitat and food sources
How often do squirrels reproduce and what
is the size of their litters
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• What is the definition of natural selection
• What are the effects of environmental
pressure on natural selection
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• What are the effects of adaptations on
survival
• What are the effects of variation on
survival and reproductive success
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• What is meiosis and how does it contribute
to new gene combinations
• What is fertilization and how does it
concentrate to variation
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• How do phenotype and genotype differ
using the two types of squirrels as
examples
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• What is a mutation and what effect could
one have on an individual, population, the
environment
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• What is the relationship between the
squirrels and the organism going after
them
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• Illustrate and discuss the trophic levels of
the squirrels and their predators
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• What effects can pollution have on the
squirrel population, the environment
• What effect can an increase in the squirrel
population have on the environment
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• What is urbanization and what affect could
it have on the environment and/or the
squirrel population
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Question and Hypothesis
• Write the question
• and your hypothesis:
– If……………. Then ……………….
– Or
– I believe …………………. Because …………
Materials
• List the materials needed for your
simulation
Procedure
• What are the steps to your simulation. Be
sure to include
– Several generations of squirrels
– Data to be collected
– How will the data support the hypothesis
Data
• Insert or construct your data table must
also be in your journal
Data
• Graph your data
Data Analysis
• Is there any sign of bias
• Do you see any trends
• Can you make any predictions
Data Analysis
• Define independent variable, what is yours
• Define dependent variable, what is yours
• What safety precautions and/or equipment
will you need
• What might be some sources of error in
your design
• Does the data support your hypothesis,
why/why not
Data Analysis
• Compare and contrast your simulation to
the moth situation
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Data Analysis
• Show the relationship between squirrels
eaten and those surviving and reproducing
(ratio and proportion)
Summary
• Discuss your findings relate your results to
populations of gray squirrels
• State the phenotypes of the squirrels
• Describe the relationships among
organisms in the forest
• Discuss how environmental pressure
affects the squirrel population
Conclusion
• Does your data confirm, modify or reject
yor hypothesis. Use the data to support
your answer
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