Which One of the Following Statements Is True

question 35

Multiple Choice

Which one of the following statements is true?

• A) Organisms always evolve the characteristics they need to survive.
• B) Some individuals within the population must die for natural selection to occur.
• C) Darwin used molecular biology as evidence of evolution.
• D) Natural selection can only work on variation that already exists.
• E) Convergent evolution produces homologous structures. Natural selection can only operate on existing variation.

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