What does natural selection state?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B. Individuals with suited heritable traits tend to leave more offspring
- Step 1: Variation exists in a population. Step 2. Those with advantageous heritable traits reproduce more. Answer: better-suited individuals leave more offspring. Why not the others: acquired traits are not inherited, equal survival would mean no selection, and mutations are random.
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