When Biologists Speak of the "Fitness" of an Organism They

question 48

Multiple Choice

When biologists speak of the "fitness" of an organism they are referring to:

• A)its strength.
• B)its beauty.
• C)its resistance to disease.
• D)the size of its gene pool.
• E)the number of its surviving offspring.

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