EVOLUTION
MODERN THEORY OF EVOLUTION
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Question
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Veronica wrote Charles Darwin’s main points on the board, but she made a mistake in one point. Which point is incorrect?
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1. Since more offspring are produced than an environment can support, organisms within a population must compete for resources to survive.
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2. Due to variations within the population, some competitors will be better equipped for survival than others.
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3. The best-equipped organisms will survive and will produce well-equipped offspring.
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4. Variations that help with survival will be passed on to future generations and will rapidly change the whole population.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -There are four principles at work in evolution-variation, inheritance, selection and time. These are considered the components of the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection.
Detailed explanation-2: -Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution had three main components: that variation occurred randomly among members of a species; that an individual’s traits could be inherited by its progeny; and that the struggle for existence would allow only those with favorable traits to survive.
Detailed explanation-3: -Darwin proposed that species can change over time, that new species come from pre-existing species, and that all species share a common ancestor.
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