A "structuralist" biologist would explain an organism's features as the result of ________

A) natural selection acting on random, small-scale variation
B) the inheritance of traits acquired over an individual's lifetime
C) principles of mathematics and physics that determine form and function
D) major "leaps" or "jumps" in phenotype within one generation
E) divine intervention in an organism's DNA


C

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