Question

Moth populations changed from mostly light colored to mostly dark colored in the 1800s. this relates to _____. answers

Answer 1

The correct answer to this is:

“Microevolution”

Microevolution is an evolutionary change that occurs to small group of species within a short span of time. The cause of this occurrences are most commonly an external factor. For the case of moth, the soot produced by the Industrial Revolution in the 1800s resulted in trees to darken and other places in England where moths liked to perch. Because of this, light colored moths were more easily identified by predators against a dark background. Dark colored moths had a larger survival advantage since they could blend in against a similarly dark background. Natural selection or microevolution favoured the darker moths, therefore their proportion within the moth population increased.

Answer 2

Microevolution is the right answer.  

Microevolution is the development in allele regularities that befalls over time within a culture. This variation is due to four distinct methods: mutation, adaptation (artificial and natural), gene flow and hereditary drift. This development occurs over a comparatively short span of time than the development takes place under the term macroevolution that is where greater diversity in the community befalls.