Contemporary American Rural Communities Are Typically

question 52

Multiple Choice

Contemporary American rural communities are typically

• A) increasing in diversity.
• B) homogeneous and exclusionary.
• C) opposed to change.
• D) resisting new technology.

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Definitions:

Natural Selection

A fundamental mechanism of evolution where organisms better adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce.

Evolutionary Theory

A scientific theory that explains the diversity of life on Earth by proposing that life evolves over time through processes of natural selection and genetic variation.

Common Ancestor

The most recent individual from which all organisms in a group are directly descended.

Directional Selection

A form of natural selection where one extreme phenotype is favored over others, causing the allele frequency to shift in one direction.