Natural Selection Is

question 52

Multiple Choice

Natural selection is

• A) a rapid process that changes features of an organism in just one generation.
• B) a superior method of adaptation relative to learning because it benefits all members of the species.
• C) based on a fitness criterion: that is, the fastest, largest, strongest, most distinctly marked members of the species are most likely to survive.
• D) a process that enables the genetic transmission of both physical features and behaviors.

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