Answer:
A. Integumentary system
Explanation:
The integumentary system consists of the skin,hair and nail. This system consists of the largest organ in the body. The skin helps in protection against pathogens by shielding the internal body system from external objects.
The skin also helps in Vitamin D production through sunlight.
It also helps to prevent dehydration through regulation of water loss.
The barnacles are only able to attach them selfs to surfaces in the water. Since the surface is limited, barnacles are attaching themselves to the other barnacles, crowding the rock. The muscles were not able to grow or attach themselves off the surface of the rock. Same thing with the mussels that are growing on the rock. So not only barnacles are crowding the rock, but Mussels as well are crowding the rock.
Humans are the closest relative I think
- The environment needs to change in order to natural selection to occur.
Reason:
Because, Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype. It is a key mechanism of evolution, the change in the heritable traits characteristic of a population over generations.
2. Population has some genetic variations.
Reason:
Genetic variation is essential for natural selection because natural selection can only increase or decrease frequency of alleles that already exist in the population. Genetic variation is caused by:
mutation and random mating between organisms
3. Nature select organism with specific traits to survive and reproduce.
Reason:
According to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, organisms that possess heritable traits that enable them to better adapt to their environment compared with other members of their species will be more likely to survive, reproduce, and pass more of their genes on to the next generation.