Question

Can someone help me write a hypothesis for
"How does an environment change as a result of Natural Selection?"

Answer 1

@blues

Answer 2

It's asking you how the nature of a particular organism in an environment affects that environment. Which is ecology - a branch of biology that I, basically a geneticist, have not seriously studied since college.

If I had to pick an example - by no means an obvious one, but a profound and easily discussed one - I would consider cancer in a human.

Cancer cells can be considered a foreign, non-self organism and the body is its habitat. Cancer cells are marked by loss of control over the cell cycle. They have a high mutation rate - as different cell lineages within the tumour acquire mutations that confer on them higher and higher fitness to thrive (i.e., divide faster, and respond to low nutrient/oxygen challenges), natural selection acts on them.

And the effects of those cancer cells on their environment (i.e., the body in which they live) are easily discussed.

Answer 3

I'd say so. But I don't think that's what the question is asking you.

Answer 4

I have to make a hypothesis based on that. It's a lab report.