Which of the Following Is a Step Specific to the Process

question 15

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a step specific to the process of artificial selection?

• A) Members of a population possess heritable variations.
• B) The population produces more offspring than the environment can support.
• C) Individuals who have favorable traits survive and reproduce more than those individuals lacking such traits.
• D) People select which individuals breed and which ones do not.
• E) Over multiple generations of reproducing, a larger proportion of the population will have those favorable traits and thus adaptation has occurred.

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