Friday, October 19, 2023

Ursus Maritimus
Polar Bear
As the Arctic's temperature increases by twice as fast as the
original temperature, polar bears are becoming more and
more endangered, leaving them vulnerable to changing
environments. Due to the rising temperature, populations
are decreasing as ice melts away. Threats such as habitat
fragmentation rise, resulting in fewer opportunities to
feed, which will result in malnutrition. As this occurs,
repopulation rates will decrease and extinction rates will
increase.

As environmental factors are always changing, no clear

future can be predicted, but if I were to make an
inference followed by past information, I would
predict that the polar bear's vulnerability and
evolutionary changes will affect the overall survival
population rate of the polar bear, which would
formally result in extinction.
Due to geographical isolation, the bear population
evolved into the polar bear, and as this took place,
favourable alleles were passed on. The cold climate
forced the polar bear to develop a thicker coat as well
as fur on their paws. The colour of the fur helped the
polar bear blend into their environment, as they were
the same olor. Due to these adaptations, the current
polar bear was created.

Preferable alleles were passed on to generations,

which led to a directional type of natural selection.
Meaning that it favours one extreme of phenotypes
and causes the population to become more popular,
this being the polar bear.
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