John Has Been Raising Small Lizards for Quite Some Time

question 274

Multiple Choice

John has been raising small lizards for quite some time and has noticed that lately,the newborn lizards have much longer legs than the previous ones.This is most likely an example of

• A) natural selection.
• B) epigenetics.
• C) behavior genetics.
• D) self-regulation.

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Definitions:

Limiting Factor

A condition or resource that limits the growth, abundance, or distribution of an organism or a population within an ecosystem.

Predation

The biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey.

Competitive Exclusion

A principle stating that two species competing for the same resource cannot coexist at constant population values, if other ecological factors remain constant.

Interspecific Competition

A form of competition between individuals of different species competing for the same resource in an ecosystem.