Which of the following would be an example of naturalselection? A. Mutations cha

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Which of the following would be an example of naturalselection? A. Mutations change the gene frequency of a population. B. All of the plants on an island are killed by a volcaniceruption. C. In a forest, the taller oak trees produce twice as manyacorns as shorter ones. D. Mice that were painted with a white stripe by biologistswere eaten by predators more often than those that were notpainted. Is the answer A, or possibly C? I'm leaning toward A. I knowthat natural selection involved inherited characteristics so thiswould eliminate D because the stripes are painted; not the resultof genetics. I also eliminated B because the death of the plantswas caused by an eruption; not genetics. I just didn't know if thenumber of acorns corresponded with genetics or moreso withenvironmental factors. Which of the following would be an example of naturalselection? A. Mutations change the gene frequency of a population. B. All of the plants on an island are killed by a volcaniceruption. C. In a forest, the taller oak trees produce twice as manyacorns as shorter ones. D. Mice that were painted with a white stripe by biologistswere eaten by predators more often than those that were notpainted. Is the answer A, or possibly C? I'm leaning toward A. I knowthat natural selection involved inherited characteristics so thiswould eliminate D because the stripes are painted; not the resultof genetics. I also eliminated B because the death of the plantswas caused by an eruption; not genetics. I just didn't know if thenumber of acorns corresponded with genetics or moreso withenvironmental factors.

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I say C. In a forest, the taller oak trees produce twice asmany acorns as shorter ones. because the natural selection is the passing ofhelpful gene so If taller oak trees have more acorns they are more like topass on the genes and make up a bigger part of the pop A mutations is not natural selection its a random factor

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