Imagine that a biologist develops a strain of corn with a lower fat content by choosing low-fat variants and crossbreeding them over several generations. This is an example of
A) inheritance of acquired characteristics.
B) convergent evolution.
C) natural selection.
D) artificial selection.
E) artificial mutation.
D
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