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Without genetic variation, natural selection would not be possible. Explain why.

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Without genetic variation, natural selection is only able to grow the number of allelomorphs that previously exited in the population. Natural selection occurs through an interaction between the environment and the variability of the individual organisms making up a population. If every giraffe had the same neck length, there would be nothing to change and they would never have a long neck by now.

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