The correct answer is Parents pass their physical traits to their offspring; those offspring with traits that help them survive in their environment are able to reproduce.
Explanation:
The modern theory of evolution explains the mechanisms that make organisms change. One of the main ideas this theory proposes is that organisms with traits that help them survive or reproduce have higher chances to pass their genes and traits to new generations. This mechanism makes certain traits to be favored and contributes to the evolution of organisms because after multiple generations certain traits will prevail while others will be eliminated.
Moreover, this theory specifies genes in an organism are not acquired or modified during its life but these are the results of the traits passed to the organism by its parents and evolution occurs only after a long time or multiple generations. According to this, the first option is the correct one.
Niche refers to adaptive features of an organism, its activity pattern and consumption of resources in the system.
Niche of an organism refers to its habitat, activity role and functional position within system. It includes the resources such as food that it obtains from the habitat for its survival.
The characteristics that are not determined by DNA are called personality traits. Personality traits are built up with personal experience rather than DNA. Some examples of personality traits are agreeableness and openness.
