Evolution Patterns Of Butterfly's Wing: Genes

Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Date Evolution Patterns of Butterfly Wing Biology as a whole is part and parcel of the natural world which firmly obeys the laws of physics and chemistry. There is much more that goes beyond the world of science. Charles Darwin is among one of the renowned scientists whose work has been highly appreciated in the field of biology. Darwin came up with two significant discoveries in evolution, common descent, and natural selection. He made it clear that common descent with diversification was the inevitable consequence of the processes of natural selection. According to Darwin's 1859 arguments on how the process of evolution works still involves the hereditary information passed on from parent to offspring though sometimes there can be a change and this is what is now referred as a mutation. That now brings forth variation. This information provides us with the basis that will profoundly help in studying the evolution of butterfly as a living organism and the changes of patterns of its wings. After researching on the biology of butterfly and more so on its ecology I got to find out how the life of a butterfly begins. It starts with an egg, and the egg size also varies according to shapes and size of different species. These eggs can be tiny, in most cases less than 1.5 mm along their its dimension. What one should understand is that no matter the differences in colors, shapes, and sizes there is one key similarity which is their structures. A more hard shell is located on the outer surface where it is with withheld, it is highly resembles a chicken’s egg in the form of a miniature, while an embryo is surrounded by highly a fluid that is much considered as being nutritious CITATION Pau91 \l 1033 (Brakefield). After being completely formed, it finally comes out of the shell. Immediately after the caterpillar emerges, it immediately starts using its jaws so as it can be capable to be able to feed on plant matter. Caterpillars mostly come in various many sizes, shapes, and forms. That makes them vulnerable in their appearance and behavior. Such things maximize their survival chances. In most cases, the young chrysalis is very soft, but in after some time, the skin gradually starts to harden. One of the typical behavior of a chrysalis is that it is well camouflaged to avoid being spotted by predators and thus survive better. After few days or a number of weeks, its cells begin to rearrange themselves, and now the caterpillar becomes fully developed into a butterfly, having its newly-formed wings which are crushed tightly and within the casing of the chrysalis. Such a butterfly is now considered being an adult. It then takes almost an hour for it to expand its wings and also become strong enough to be fully capable of flying. Having workable wings now, the adult butterfly flies in search of something to feed itself, after having achieved all that the butterfly finds a mate for purposes of reproduction to begin the cycle all over again. Focusing more on a butterfly's wings I had to learn about what modeling butterfly wing eyespot patterns entail. These eyespots, to begin with, are concentric motifs which consist of contrasting colors on a butterfly wings. They have an intra- and inter-specifi...