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==Some organisms survive and others die as the environment changes; this changes the proportion of organisms with certain traits in that population. ==

A population is a group of individuals of the same species. Can the proportion of individuals with certain traits in a population change because the environment changes? A.Yes, when the environment changes, individuals in a population can change their inherited traits to better fit the environment, and this changes the proportion of individuals with certain traits in that population.

B.Yes, when the environment changes, individuals with certain inherited traits survive and reproduce and other individuals with different inherited traits die, and this changes the proportion of individuals with certain traits in a population.

C.No, the proportion of individuals with certain inherited traits in a population changes randomly from one generation to the next, never as a result of changes to the environment.

D.No, the proportion of individuals with certain inherited traits in a population cannot change because a population is all one species and so will always have the same inherited traits.

Topic

Evolution and Natural Selection

Correct Answer B

Misconceptions

Answer Choice: C

ENM033: Change to the characteristics of populations (i.e. the proportion of individuals in the population having certain traits) of organisms is always random, and is not influenced by the favorability of that change in a given environment (AAAS Project 2061, n.d.).

Answer Choice: D

ENM028: All individuals within a population of organisms are the same. Differences among them are trivial and unimportant. All members of a population are nearly identical (Greene, 1990; Passmore & Stewart 2004; Anderson et al. 2002; Shtulman, 2006). All bears in snowing environment looked like a grizzly bear but one trait had a cub be white it was easier for the white bear to survive it was camouflage with its environment easier for the bear to hunt then the cub was older and still had that trait and passed it down so that then all the bears were all white.

Not everyone gets to survive. Organisms with best genes survive and pass them on to the next gen making those genes more popular. #evolution