According to the Text, Which of the Following Best Describes

question 21

Multiple Choice

According to the text, which of the following best describes "change" in the traits of living things?

• A) Nature plans ahead and designs certain kinds of changes.
• B) Nature allows for living things to remain essentially unchanged from one generation to the next.
• C) Nature produces changes in living things that are essentially random.
• D) Nature, through the process of reproduction, is guaranteed to produce predictable outcomes in the traits of offspring.

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Definitions:

Histogram

This is a graphical representation of data using bars of different heights where each bar groups numbers into ranges.

Unimodal

Describing a distribution with a single peak or mode, representing the most frequently occurring value.

Empirical Rules

A set of guidelines that indicate how the data are spread in a normal distribution, specifically stating that approximately 68%, 95%, and 99.7% of the data fall within one, two, and three standard deviations from the mean, respectively.

Standard Deviations

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values differ from the mean.