The term evolution is used to describe
A. the ability of an individual organism to pass on what it has learned, through experience, to the next generation.
B. any change in an individual that can be observed.
C. heritable changes in characteristics of a population from one generation to the next.
D. any change in an individual organism that occurs in somatic cells.
E. changes in the number of individuals in a population due to mating.
Answer: C
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