Monday, July 27, 2009

Natural selection is best described as...?

a) overproduction of offspring


b) inheritance of aquired characteristics


c) a drive to perfection


d) a change in response to nee


e) differential reproductive success

Natural selection is best described as...?
The answer is E. - differential reproductive success.





Genes which allow an individual to produce more offspring (either because it can survive longer, or because it can mate better, or whatever) will become more common in a population across the generations.
Reply:I am very sorry, but you can't inherit characteristics that your parents aquired. Physically impossible.
Reply:i believe the answer is





b. inheritance of acquired characteristics
Reply:e


Natural selection is proccess when favorable heritable traits become more common in successive generations of a population of reproducing organisms,


and unfavorable heritable traits become less common.


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