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Black peppered moths and white peppered moths
Black peppered moths and white peppered moths
Peppered moths are so named for their appearance with their many black spots. The larvae thrive by eating the leaves from a variety of trees like the oak tree.
The peppered moth got its name due to it be pepper in color. There are some peppered moths that are completely black in color.
Peppered moths are so named for their appearance with their many black spots. The larvae thrive by eating the leaves from a variety of trees like the oak tree.
The black color became an adaptation.
Due to conservation efforts, numbers are stabilizing (numbers of the black rhino population). Recovery is on it's way for the Black Rhino, if these trends continue.
The peppered moth is a classic example used to demonstrate natural selection. It is said that the peppered moth began a light color to blend in to the trees so it would escape being eaten by its predators. However, during the industrial revolution smog darkened the trees and the peppered moth became better adapted as a dark color.
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B) that a harmful phenotype may become an advantageous phenotype when the environment changes
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The Industrial Revolution caused pepper moths to adapt to a darker color due to the soot and ash everywhere so that they could hide from predators better, which made the black to gray moth ratio pull towards black. After the Industrial Revolution was over however then the black peppered moths numbers started to decrease and the grayish peppered moths number began to increase. This is evidence of adaptation.The population of light-colored moths decreased and the population of dark-colored moths increased.