Chapter 53, Problem 10TYK

Summary Introduction

To review:

The processes that might contribute to the evolution of Batesian mimicry in two butterfly species and would the same processes affect both the mimic and the model similarity. Also, determine the process that contributes to the evolution of the mutualistic relationship between ants and acacia trees, and the way in which their action on the two mutualistic differ.

Introduction:

The microevolutionary processes include changes like gene flow, genetic drift, mutation, natural selection, and nonrandom mating. These phenomenons affect the relationships and interactions between the species and therefore help them to evolve. The genetic drift is drastic extinction of a species by any incident, while gene flow is a movement of a species from its native place onto another land.

Mutation refers to an occurrence of any random change into the genes of an individual. Natural selection is the selection of better species among the existing population and nonrandom mating is the mating between two organisms of the same population.