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Hawke

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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.



Celeste

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C) Characteristics of organisms are inherited as genes on chromosomes.



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Thanks so much, it was right ;)



 

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