Members of a population of guinea pigs exhibit one of three possible coat colors: black, gray, or white. Due to habitat loss, the population has recently colonized a new environment that has areas of black rocks as well as areas of white rocks. In addition, this new habitat contains several predators. If you could visit this population several generations later, what kind of phenotypic pattern, in terms of coat color, would you expect to find in this population

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Answer:

The area will be populated with  higher number of black and white  colored guinea pigs, with no population of grey.

Explanation:

This is because the new habitat favours  survival of black and white  guinea pigs over  gray. The black  and white  rocks  habitat camouflage the black and white  guinea pigs  from the predator (the selective pressure). Therefore the predator selected  more  gray guinea pigs  each time ahead of the white and black,thus the allele frequency for black and white guinea pigs changed, giving directional selection  towards  white and black phenotype over  gray.

Consequently, the black  and white guinea pigs have  higher  selective advantage above  the gray. if the environmental and selective pressures continues, the  white and black will  have higher reproductive success,and  their phenotype  will evolved in the entire population while the less selective advantaged gray color guinea  pig phenotype  disappears.