In studying the medium ground finch on Daphne Major, the Grants noted that each generation of finches had beaks  

A.  best suited for their parents' environment.
B.  best suited for their current environment.
C.  smaller than those of the previous generation.
D.  larger than those of the previous generation.


A.  best suited for their parents' environment.

Each generation of finches inherited beak size from the previous (parental) generation; it was the parental generation on which selection had acted to produce the offspring generation's distribution of beak size.

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What will be an ideal response?

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