Variation That Does Not Alter the Ability of an Individual

question 69

Multiple Choice

Variation that does not alter the ability of an individual to survive and reproduce, and therefore not an adaptive variation, is called:

• A) frequency-dependent selection
• B) genetic variation
• C) gene flow
• D) genetic polymorphism
• E) neutral variation

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