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What does industrial melanism mean?

Answer 1

Industrial melanism is an evolutionary effect prominent in several arthropods, where dark pigmentation has evolved in an environment affected by industrial pollution, including sulphur dioxide gas and dark soot deposits. Sulphur dioxide kills lichens, leaving tree bark bare where in clean areas it is boldly patterned, while soot darkens bark and other surfaces. Darker pigmented individuals have a higher fitness in those areas as their camouflage matches the polluted background better; they are thus favoured by natural selection. This change, extensively studied by Bernard Kettlewell, is a popular teaching example in Darwinian evolution, providing evidence for natural selection. Kettlewell's results have been challenged by zoologists, creationists and the journalist Judith Hooper, but later researchers have upheld Kettlewell's findings

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Answer 2

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INDUSTRIAL MElANISM

the prevalence of dark- coloured variety of animals especially moths in Industrial areas where there they are better camouflaged than paler forms is called as INDUSTRIAL MELANISM

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