The three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) is a s…
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The three-spined sticklebаck (Gаsterоsteus аculeatus) is a small fish fоund in bоth marine and freshwater environments. Marine stickleback populations consist mainly of individuals with armor-like plates covering most of their body surface (completely plated). Approximately 10,000 years ago, some marine sticklebacks colonized freshwater environments. After many generations in the freshwater environments, the freshwater stickleback populations lacked the armor plating (low plated) typical of marine stickleback populations. Over the period between 1957 and 2005, one freshwater population, in Lake Washington, a lake in a coastal region of the northwestern United States, changed from having a majority of individuals of the low-plated phenotype to having more individuals of the completely-plated phenotype than of the low-plated phenotype. Figure 1 shows the distribution of plated phenotypes in Lake Washington sticklebacks at four time points between 1957 and 2005. There are 5 tick marks along the horizontal axis. Centered between each tick mark, from left to right, are the numbers 1957, 1968, 1976, and 2005. The vertical axis is label Percentage of Fish, and the numbers appearing on it, from bottom to top, are zero,20, 40, 60, 80, and 100. The graph shows 11 bars and a key indicates black bars are completely plated, shaded bars are partially plated, and white bars are low plated. From left to right, the data reads as approximately:1957: completely plated,no bar; partially plated, 10; low plated, 90.1968: completely plated, 7; partially plated, 24; low plated 70. 1976: completely plated, 40; partially plated, 35; low plated 24. 2005: completely plated, 50; partially plated, 35; low plated 15. A single gene, ectodysplasin (EDA), is thought to be responsible for the variation in the number of armor plates in sticklebacks. Figure 2 shows a phylogenetic tree constructed by comparing DNA sequences of the EDA gene from a number of stickleback populations with low-plated or completely plated phenotypes. Figure 3 shows a phylogenetic tree constructed by comparing the sequences of 25 genes that were randomly selected from the same populations as shown in Figure 2. In both figures, shaded populations display the completely plated phenotype. The figures show two phylogenetic trees titled Figure 2, Phylogeny based on EDA gene only, and Figure 3, Phylogeny based on 25 random genes. Shaded populations indicated completely plated phenotypes. Figure 2 on the left divides Populations 1 through 8 as low plated, and Populations 9 through 15 as completely plated.A large branch connects all low plated phenotypes to all completely plated phenotypes. On the top branch, a tree connects Populations 1 and 2 only, and a branch then connects them to Population 3. A branch then connects Populations 1 through 3 to Population 4. A tree connects Populations 5 and 6 only, and a branch is then connected from Populations 5 and 6 to Populations 1 through 4. This tree is then connected to Population 7.On the bottom branch, a tree connects Populations 8 and 9, and a tree connects Populations 10 and 11. A branch then connects Populations 8 and 9 to Populations 10 and 11. This branch is then connected to Population 12. A tree connects Populations 8 through 12 to Population 13, a branch connects Population 14 to Populations 8 through 13, and a branch connects Population 15 to Populations 8 through 14. Figure 3 on the right has a tree that connects Population 15 to Populations one through 14. A tree connects Populations 4 and 6 and a single branch extends to the tree connecting Population 15 to Populations one through 14. A tree connects Populations 14 and 7, and a branch connects this set to Population 5. A branch then connects this set to Population 12, another branch connects this set to Population 13, and another branch connects this set to Population 8. A tree connects Populations 11 and 9, a branch connects this set to Population 10, another branch connects this set to Population 1, another branch connects this set to Population 3, and another branch connects this set to Population 2. A tree connects Populations 14, 7, 5, 12, 13, and 8 to Populations 11, 9, 10, 1, 3 and 2. A completely-plated stickleback from a marine population was mated to a low-plated stickleback from a freshwater population. The resulting F1 hybrids all displayed a completely plated phenotype. When the F1 hybrids were allowed to interbreed, the resulting F2 generation included completely plated offspring and low-plated offspring in an approximate 3:1 ratio. The phylogenetic trees in Figures 2 and 3 depict two different phylogenies of the same populations of sticklebacks. Which of the following questions will best help determine which tree represents the most accurate phylogeny?
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