When an organism actively perturbs the environment in ways that modify the selection pressures experienced by subsequent generations of organisms, it is said to be engaged in
A. natural selection
B. gene flow
C. genetic drift
D. niche construction
Ans: D. niche construction
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a. True b. False
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