The Concept That Individuals or Species That Are Capable of Adapting

question 102

Multiple Choice

The concept that individuals or species that are capable of adapting to environmental pressures are more likely to reproduce and pass along their adaptive characteristics than those that cannot adapt is called _____.

• A) inheritanc
• B) functionalism
• C) natural selection
• D) Darwinism

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Definitions:

Rejection Region

The rejection region is the range of values in hypothesis testing that leads to the rejection of the null hypothesis if the test statistic falls within this range.

Robust Estimator

An estimate method that is not overly sensitive to outliers or violations of assumptions by the underlying data-generating process.

Normality

In statistics, a condition in which a distribution approximates the normal distribution, characterized by a bell-shaped curve.

Consistent

In statistics, a property of an estimator indicating that as the sample size increases, it converges in probability to the true parameter value.