How does natural selection make populations more adapted to their environments?

What will be an ideal response?


Organisms with heritable, advantageous traits reproduce more. As a result, these advantageous traits become more common in a population and make the population better adapted to its environment.

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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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