Natural Selection Butterfly activity

Background Information

Natural selection is a process that determines which genes and traits are passed on from one generation to the next.

Procedure

Butterfly Procedure

Results

This relates to the story of the white and black moths in industrial England. As pollution levels rose, white moths were dying out while black moths were prevailing. The pollution (black soot) on the trees helped the black moths blend in, which helped them avoid predation and breed with other surviving black moths, thus passing their traits on!

Butterfly Challenge

Butterfly Challenge