Natural selection. The trait that is unfavorable to the baby giraffe's survival will cause the death of giraffes with that specific gene that is responsible for a short neck vs a long neck. Natural selection causes traits that help the survival of the species will be carried throughout generations while unfavorable traits will be lost.
Answer:
Women who carry one copy of the mutated gene still have normal color vision because they have another copy, which is not mutated, in the other X chromosome that will be the dominant one. As a result, the women are carriers of the mutated gene but not color blind.
Explanation:
Colorblindness is a sex-linked mutation. A woman has two X chromosomes, while a man has one X chromosome and one Y chromosome. The mutated gene that causes color blindness is on the X chromosome, and it is OPN1LW. So if a woman has one mutated OPN1LW in one of her two X chromosomes, the OPN1LW gene in the other X chromosome will be the dominant one stopping the woman from being colorblind.
In the case of men, as they only have one X chromosome, if there is a mutation on the OPN1LW in the X chromosome, the men will be colorblind because there is no extra copy of the gene, as it is in women.
This is just a guess but Florida is very humid, so I think the humidity would cause late afternoon thunderstorms.
