NEET BIOLOGY

GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

INHERITANCE AND VARIATION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Charles Darwin was credited for ____
A
Selective breeding
B
Natural selection
C
Genetic modification
D
Fingerprinting
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -English naturalist Charles Darwin developed the idea of natural selection after a five-year voyage to study plants, animals, and fossils in South America and on islands in the Pacific. In 1859, he brought the idea of natural selection to the attention of the world in his best-selling book, On the Origin of Species.

Detailed explanation-2: -Natural selection is one of the ways to account for the millions of species that have lived on Earth. Charles Darwin (1809-1882) and Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) are jointly credited with coming up with the theory of evolution by natural selection, having co-published on it in 1858.

Detailed explanation-3: -Charles Darwin was a British naturalist who proposed the theory of biological evolution by natural selection. Darwin defined evolution as “descent with modification, ” the idea that species change over time, give rise to new species, and share a common ancestor.

Detailed explanation-4: -Charles Darwin proposed the theory of natural selection in 1859 as a way to explain adaptation and speciation.

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