If the HMS Beagle Had Completely Bypassed the Galapagos Islands

question 7

Multiple Choice

If the HMS Beagle had completely bypassed the Galapagos Islands, Darwin would have had a much poorer understanding of the

• A)relative stability of a well-adapted population's numbers over many generations.
• B)ability of populations to undergo modification as they adapt to a particular environment.
• C)tendency of organisms to produce the exact number of offspring that the environment can support.
• D)unlimited resources that support population growth in most natural environments.
• E)lack of genetic variation among all members of a population.

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