Answer:
A. They are have a limitless growth potential, in part due to their ability to maintain telomere length, and in culture will continue to divide indefinitely.
Explanation:
Unlike normal cells, telomeres shorten in every cell division until eventually they become too short to protect the chromosomes and the cell dies. Cancer cells reverse the telomeres shortening, and instead, they lengthen them, thus they become inmortal.
Mutations can cause instant adaptations, while natural selection is the process by which adaptations occurs over a series of generations. Adaptations are changes or processes of changes by which an organism or species becomes better suited for its environment. A mutation is an alteration of the DNA sequence.
Answer: Only some of the organisms survive and reproduce.
Natural selection is a process of differential survival and reproduction in which organisms bearing favorable phenotypic traits survive in changing environmental conditions. Therefore, only some of the organisms survive and reproduce which have suitable phenotypic trait. For example a population of beetle bearing two colors red and green. The green colored beetles mimic the color of grass will remain undetected by birds and those with red color easily observed and detected by birds. Hence, only green beetles are favored for survival over red beetles.
