Trace how inherited variation and selection for survival or reproduction change allele frequencies through neo-Darwinian evolution.
If a wild population of cats contained both curled ears and normal ears, explain how the proportion of these two phenotypes could change in the population.
a. natural selection could change the proportion;
b. better sense of hearing with normal ears / other suggestion of selective advantage of one phenotype or the other;
c. greater chance of survival with better adapted phenotype;
d. survival to reproductive age/more reproduction of certain cats (with better adapted phenotype);
e. (ear type is) heritable/offspring inherit alleles (for adaptation) from surviving cats;
f. proportion (with adaptation) increases in population;