When All Females Have High Fecundity, a Population Can Be

question 35

Multiple Choice

When all females have high fecundity, a population can be driven to extinction. This occurs because of

• A) natural selection.
• B) convergence.
• C) blending inheritance.
• D) continuous variation.

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