A scientist wrote a paper titled “Directional Selection in Action” after observing a population of mice for 15 years. The mice typically preferred to eat berries, although a few would also eat insects. After a drought in year 3, the scientist observed that more mice were eating insects. By year 10, most of the mice in the population ate insects in addition to berries. Which best describes her article?

Her article depicts an instinctive animal instinct in the mice when they look for other sources of water during the drought. it shows the growth, or evolution of nature through experience.

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Larus Larus · Answer 2 · 2019-07-14T02:51:53+02:00

Answer:

The correct description of her article is that it is accurate as one extreme is favored.

Explanation:

A kind of natural selection in which one extreme phenotype is favored over the other one over a time duration is known as directional selection. The condition makes the frequency alleles to mediate in the direction of the encouraged phenotype.

It can be witnessed from the given case, that even not being the favorite food of the mice, they were forced to consume insects due to the drought situation, and with the time being, the majority of the mice ended up consuming insects.