Spiegelman and colleagues demonstrated natural selection in RNA replications because in their experiments:

a. RNA molecules had differential survival and replication rates.
b. RNA was self-replicating.
c. the researchers chose which RNA molecules to replicate.
d. RNA was copied into DNA.


A

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