The Following Questions Refer to Figure 27.1

question 3

Multiple Choice

The following questions refer to Figure 27.1.
In this eight-year experiment, 12 populations of E. coli, each begun from a single cell, were grown in low-glucose conditions for 20,000 generations. Each culture was introduced to fresh growth medium every 24 hours. Occasionally, samples were removed from the populations, and their fitness in low-glucose conditions was tested against that of members sampled from the ancestral (common ancestor) E. coli population.

Figure 27.1
-Which term best describes what has occurred among the experimental populations of cells over this eight-year period?

• A) microevolution
• B) speciation
• C) adaptive radiation
• D) sexual selection
• E) stabilizing selection

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