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

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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:

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genetic variation can be caused by mutation (which can create entirely new alleles in a population), random mating, random fertilization, and recombination between homologous chromosomes during meiosis (which reshuffles alleles within an organism's offspring).