In the figure above, the distribution of offspring traits (the bottom panel) is shifted away from the distribution of the parental generation (top panel) because:

a. natural selection has altered the allele frequencies in the population.
b. epistasis has created novel phenotypes.
c. mutation has generated new alleles.
d. dominant alleles have created new trait values.
e. None of the above.


A

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