If the Survivors of an Original Population Survived Due to Specific

question 13

Multiple Choice

If the survivors of an original population survived due to specific phenotypes that they possessed, then this event is an example of

• A) natural selection.
• B) genetic drift.
• C) founder effect.
• D) industrial melanism.
• E) gene flow. Selected survival is considered natural selection.

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