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Biologists refer to _______ as the extent to which a trait increases the chances that organisms that possess this trait will survive and reproduce at a higher rate than competitors who lack it.

a. instinct
b. fitness
c. drift
d. heritability

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Heritability is correct
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D. Heritability. If you inherit something, something is being passed down to you
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