Answer to Question #112673 in Evolution for NIBEDITA RUDRA

Question

Industrial Melanism is an excellent model
to demonstrate Natural Selection.' Briefly
analyse and justify the above statement.

Answer 1

Industrial melanism is the darkness of the body acquired by a population of animals living in an industrial region where the environment is soot-darkened. This is an excellent model to demonstrate natural selection because industrial melanism is arisen in last centuries and increases the probability that animals with melanization will survive and reproduce in industrialized environment because lighter, more conspicuous animals are eliminated by predators.