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Only variations that confer an advantage to an individual organism will survive in a population. Do you agree with this statement? Why or why not?
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14/09/2021 5:00 pm
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Only variations that confer an advantage to an individual organism will survive in a population. Do you agree with this statement? Why or why not?
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14/09/2021 5:01 pm
Yes, we agree with this statement because advantageous variations enable an organism to cope with changes in the environment. For example, there is a sudden drop in environ-mental temperature of an area where bacteria live. Under such condition only those bacteria that can tolerate low temperature will survive in a cold wave, while others do not. These survivors pass on their advantageous characters to their offspring resulting in the formation of new species.
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