Question

Darwin stated four conditions that are necessary for natural selection to occur. Which of these conditions is not fulfilled by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the organism that causes tuberculosis?

Answer 1

Mycobacterium tuberculosis fulfilled all the four conditions stated by Darwin.

Step-by-step explanation:

Natural selection is the ability of an organism with favored heritable traits for survival and reproduction, have more offsprings or young ones than its peers , after transferring those heritable traits to the young ones.

The four conditions , necessary for natural selection as stipulated by Darwin are,

* reproduction

* heredity

* variation in organisms

* variation of an individual organism or character among others in the population.