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Darwin noticed that many organisms seemed well suited to

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Elanso [62]3 years ago

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Answer:

survive in their environment

Explanation:

According to Darwin's theory of evolution, natural selection is the main mechanism. Darwin explains that organisms that have heritable traits that help them survive and reproduce, will be favorable by natural selection. Those favorable traits will enable organism to better adapt to their environment and to pass more genes on to the next generation (offspring).

Organisms adapt to their environment by changing their behavior, structural traits or physiology as a response to environmental change, so that they become well suited to it.

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The correct answer would be 48 percent.

It can be solved by using the Hardy-Weinberg equation.

p² + 2pq+ q² = 1

p + q = 1

where, p² represents homozygous dominant's frequency that is, SS in this case,

q² represents homozygous recessive's frequency that is, ss in this case,

2pq represents heterozygous dominant's frequency that is, Ss in this case.

p represents dominant allele's frequency and q represents the recessive allele's frequency.

Now, the percentage of homozygous recessive or short stems is 35%. Therefore, the frequency of homozygous recessive would be 0.35.

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So, q = $\sqrt{0.35}$ = 0.59 which is approximately equals to 0.6.

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Hence, the frequency of heterozygous would be 48 percent.

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