A population of beetles in which some individuals are blue and some individuals are green evolves because the green individuals survive better, and so leave more offspring. This mechanism of evolution is known as

A) natural selection.
B) mutation pressure.
C) genetic drift.
D) gene flow.


A

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a. ?at the North Pole. b. ?in the center of a large land mass. c. ?along the Pacific coast of North America. d. ?high in the mountains in the middle of a continent. e. ?on a small island near the equator.

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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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Fill in the blanks with correct word

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