The correct answer is: Individuals that produce chemical compounds are better protected from herbivores and are able to produce more young than individuals that do not produce the compounds.
Natural selection acts on variations-differences in phenotype that exist among individuals. If a certain trait contribute more to survival and reproduction (individuals with that variant survive more than individuals with other variant), natural selection will favor that trait. In this case, production of chemical compounds is favored over non-producing trait.
The term Neurotransmitter describes the chemical substances that make it possible for messages to cross from the synapse of a neuron to the target receptor.
<h3>What are Neurotransmitters?</h3>
- Neurotransmitters are endogenous chemicals that allow neurons to communicate with each other throughout the body.
- Chemical synaptic transmission is primarily through the release of neurotransmitters from presynaptic neural cells to postsynaptic receptors.
- There are a number of neurotransmitters used by the body for different functions, including acetylcholine, norepinephrine, glutamate, GABA, glycine, dopamine, and serotonin.
- Glutamate is the principal excitatory neurotransmitter used in the brain.
- GABA and Glycine serve as the major inhibitory neurotransmitters.
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The best answer among the choices given is option D. Both growth and reproduction is the <span>characteristic of living things that is important to the survival of a group of animals rather than an individual member of this group. These two are very important in order for the survival of all the living things on Earth. Without these things, life here on Earth will end.</span>
<span>Neutral mutations are neither harmful nor beneficial.
Therefore, they are invisible to natural selection. (Since they neither improve nor worsen one individual's chances of survival and reproduction over another.)
However neutral mutations can still spread into the population by just random replications and matings. This is called genetic drift.
In other words, they are 'silent'. They are mutations that exist and propagate in populations, but seem to have no effect at all.
The reason they can become important to evolution is that a day can come when they *do* have an effect. In other words, even though an individual mutation may have no immediate effect on survival or reproduction, a *combination* of neutral mutations may provide some new benefit or harm ... at which point natural selection *will* act on that combination.
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