Populations evolve for many reasons. suppose there is a population of plants that have either purple flowers or white flowers, and the allele for purple flowers is dominant. this means that plants with two purple alleles have purple flowers. plants with one purple allele and one white allele also have purple flowers. only plants with two white alleles have white flowers. for each event or condition described below, answer the following questions.

a. which mechanism of evolution is at work? b. how does this event affect the populations gene pool? do the frequencies of the two alleles change, and if so, how?

Natural selection by directional selection, was the driving force of evolution at work. The purple flowers parents were able to withstand the selective pressure and therefore emerged from completions with other flowers from previous generation, thus their dominance follow directional selection. This was the trait inherited by their offspring, the dominant purple

The gene pool of purple flower will be large; because of dominance in expression with each successive generation in both homozygote and heterozygote state, and therefore higher frequency of expression compared to the white flowers.

The frequency of allele depends on the rate expression of the allele in the population. Thus, the dominant purple flowers have high frequency of expression compared to the recessive white flowers which can only express itself in homozygote  recessive state

the answer is

c. parental