Answer:
directional selection
Explanation:
The directional selection is a type of Darwinian selection where a particular phenotype is favored in the population, thereby modifying the allelic frequencies to increase the proportion of the favored phenotype. <em>Biston betularia</em>, also known as peppered moth, is a species that was influenced by directional selection in its recent past. Before the industrial revolution, the frequency of light-colored moths was predominant compared to the darker-colored phenotypes, because this color has higher adaptive fitness in a clean, no pollution environment, thereby light-colored moths were able to avoid predatory birds. However, during the industrial revolution, the frequency of dark-colored moths increased in response to pollution (i.e. darker environment), thereby conferring a higher adaptive fitness to darker phenotypes.
Answer:
a. a set of proteins involved in innate but not acquired immunity.
Explanation:
The complement system are a set of proteins or protein fragments that play a major role in the innate immune system. The complement system is involved in the defense of the body from foreign pathogen through specific plasma proteins that participate in leukocyte activation, chemotaxis and opsonization. In other words, they increase the ability of phagocytes and antibodies to mop up damaged cells and foreign microorganism, activate inflammation process.
Some of these proteins include complement component 3 (C3), complement component 9 (C9) and C1Q complex.
-A-A-A-T-G-C- because only one base pair is altered by the mutation