Natural Selection
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- Starting Population
- We, the Night-Blooming Cereus, are a flower that grow on cacti and bloom only at night so that we dont get dehydrated and die
- Variation
- Some of us bloom during the daytime, but we die due to dehydration pretty quickly.
- Change in environment
- Wow a river! We may not need to only bloom at night anymore! The river can hydrate us during the day!
- The Night-Blooming Cereus are cacti flowers that bloom at night so that they don't get dehydrated and die from blooming during the day.
- New Competition
- Oh no! Competition! They might steal our water!
- We will steal all of your water so that WE will live and YOU will not!
- Some of the Night-Blooming Cereus bloom during the day, but they tend to die out due to dehydration in the hot desert.
- Differential Survival
- Our competition is adapted to be able to bloom during the day and survive! I fear that if we dont adapt, we will die out!
- If a river were to form in the desert, the Night-Blooming Cereus would no longer have to bloom during the night because they can get a constant form of water and not die of dehydration.
- Adaptation
- Our parents may have died when we were born, but at least they passed on the trait of daytime blooming!
- With the river formed in the desert, more of the Night-Blooming Cereus will be made, therefore giving the original Cereus will have more competition than before.
- These new Cereus could have new adaptations that can allow them to bloom during the day instead of the night.
- The original Cereus died out after planting its seeds in the desert. The offspring of original Cereus had the adaptation of daytime blooming.
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