Question

A natural color mutation occurs in a species of red beetles, causing some of them to be green in color. These bugs exist in a grassland environment, and many species of birds eat them as food. What will most likely happen to the population of the bugs in the future?
A. Half of the population of bugs will be red and the other half will be green.
B. All of the bugs will die off because of predator attacks.
C. Most of the bugs will be green.
D. Most of the bugs will be red.

Answer 1

C. most of the bugs will turn green because of the environment being green, they will turn green as well. this will take a while but it will eventually happen.

Answer 2

The correct answer is option C. Most of the bugs will be green.

It is given that the bugs live in the grass land environment, and the color of the grass is green, so, the green bugs would be less located by the predators, hence, their chances of predation are less. The red color bugs can be easily located in the green grass, hence, they will be predated more. As a result of more predation of the red bugs, the green or the mutated bugs would have a advantage to grow and reproduce in the grassland environment.