NEET Biology question
Wh ich of the following are necessary for evolution by natural selection to take place? (i) Offspring resemble their parents more than other individuals in the population. (ii) Differences among individuals exist and lead to different numbers of successful offspring being produced. (iii) Individuals provided with favorable and unfavorable variations would survive. (iv) Every individual possess enormous fertility.
Answer: (B)
Solution
Natural selection requires heritable variation among individuals leading to differences in reproductive success (ii), and it requires that organisms produce far more offspring than can survive, i.e. enormous fertility
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