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Hawke

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on: May 24, 2013
Which of the following statements is not part of Charles Darwin's concept of natural selection?
A) Slight inheritable variations within a  population may make an individual significantly more or less likely to survive in its environment, and thus to reproduce.
B) Every organism has the potential to produce more offspring than the local environment can support.
C) Characteristics of organisms are inherited as genes on chromosomes.
D) Better adapted members of a species will survive and reproduce more successfully.
E) Most individuals in a species do not survive to reproduce.


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Reply #1 on: May 25, 2013
Quote from: Hawke on May 24, 2013
C) Characteristics of organisms are inherited as genes on chromosomes.


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Reply #2 on: Jun 10, 2013
Thanks so much, it was right ;)


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