Based on the data collected 10 years later, is this population of finches currently evolving? How do you know?

Question

Use the passage to answer the question

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inacetam population of inches, a single gene controls berak length. There are two possible aleses: S which leads to a shon beak and which leads to a long beak Individuals with the genotype SS will have a Desak, indiwowars with the genchype LL. will have a long beat, and individuals with the genotype SL will haye medium-ength beak Scientists measure that in this population of 1,128 total beros, 321 birds have unor bears 562 have medium-length beaks, and 245 have long beaks.

yes because more individuals in the population exhibit the SS genotype than would be expected the popucation was in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium

no because the number of individuals that exhibit the St. genotype matches what would be expected if the population was in Handy-Weinberg equilibrium

no because lewer individuals in the population exhibit the SS genotype than would be expected the population was in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium

yes because more individuals in the poputation exhibit the LL. genotype than would be expected if the population was in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium

Beak Length in Finches

Ten year later the measurements are repeated. This time, there were 1,345 birds in the population, 452 have short breaks, 1999 have medium-length beaks and 195 have long beaks

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Answer 1

Based on the data collected 10 years later, it is not possible to determine if the population of finches is currently evolving. This is because the passage does not provide information about the expected frequency of each genotype in the population if it were in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. To determine if the population is evolving, we would need to compare the observed genotype frequencies to the expected frequencies.