If in One Population of Pupfish All of the Individuals

question 49

Multiple Choice

If in one population of pupfish all of the individuals have a blood pigment that is extraordinarily effective at carrying oxygen, but this trait is not seen in any of the other populations, what likely happened?

• A) Because oxygen was low where these pupfish lived, a new allele for an effective blood pigment arose.
• B) This population was lucky to have an individual with a random mutation for an effective blood pigment, and the frequency of this allele was increased in subsequent generations through natural selection.
• C) The ancestral population probably had this type of blood pigment, but it was lost through genetic drift in the other 29 populations.
• D) The other populations did not need this pigment, so they did not evolve it.

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