Natural Selection Has Been Working on Most Organisms for a Really

question 11

Multiple Choice

Natural selection has been working on most organisms for a really long time, so why isn't everything perfectly designed to suit the environment by now?

• A) Mutations keep messing up the good designs.
• B) Natural selection can only select for traits the organism already has, and those are not always perfect for the job they need to do.
• C) Natural selection sometimes works to perfect a trait for an upcoming environmental change, so it's not perfect right away, but it should be later on.
• D) Natural selection might select the perfect trait but then the organism behaves in some way that makes it not work as well as it could.
• E) Sexual reproduction mixes up traits no matter how carefully they get selected initially.

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