For Natural Selection to Work on a Particular Population

question 45

Multiple Choice

For natural selection to work on a particular population

• A) their members must have a sufficiently long enough life span.
• B) the environment must remain constant.
• C) there must be a strong will to survive among the members of the population.
• D) there must be variety within that population.
• E) there must be genotypic diversity but phenotypic homogeneity.

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