Which of the Following Is Not a Step in the Process

question 22

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not a step in the process of natural selection?

• A) members of a population possess heritable variations
• B) the population produces more offspring than the environment can support
• C) individuals who have favorable traits survive and reproduce more than those individuals lacking such traits
• D) people select which individuals breed and which ones do not
• E) over multiple generations of reproducing, a larger proportion of the population will have those favorable traits and thus adaptation has occurred

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