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There is competition for resources and those traits that allow organisms to be successful will be seen more commonly in future generations. This describes ________.

a. overproduction
b. artificial selection
c. selection
d. duplicity​

User Sukeshj
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Answer:

C

Step-by-step explanation:

Selection (natural) is an aspect of evolutionary biology that desribes the process by which heritable traits conferring survival and reproductive advantage to individuals, or related individuals, tend to be passed on to succeeding generations and become more frequent in a population, whereas other less favourable traits tend to become eliminated.

Selection (natural) can also be examined in the quantitative genetics context ad it involves a process in which individual organisms or phenotypes that possess favourable traits are more likely to survive and reproduce: the differential survival and reproduction of phenotypes.

Duplicity simply means intentional deceptiveness.

Whereas artificial selection describes the intervention in survival and evolution/succession by humans in the breeding of plants or animals in order to preserve selected genetic traits.

Overproduction is out of context in the subject here.

The answer is C.

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