D) the Tigris, Euphrates, and Nile
Those are the only rivers listen that are in the middle east
When a population exhibits adaptation, it indicates that the population has responded to a pressure from the environment in a way that causes the prevalence of beneficial features to rise over time.
Natural selection only affects heritable traits in populations, favoring advantageous alleles and reducing the frequency of harmful alleles, a process known as adaptive evolution. Natural selection only affects heritable traits in populations. However, natural selection affects whole organisms rather than specific alleles. A person may have a genotype that is extremely advantageous and a phenotype that, for example, boosts fecundity, but if that person also contains an allele that causes a fatal childhood ailment, the fecundity phenotype won't be passed on to the next generation.
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Sorry I'm late on this, but your answer is, "Ming."
I assume that the question refers to the political affiliation of the Islands (They are Islands in the Mariana Trench, in the Pacific Ocean, south of Japan) - they are politically linked to the US - the correct answer is a). For example the Mariana islands have a commonwealth status within the US.