Question

Adaptations shaped by natural selection:_____

Answer 1

Answer:

e) are continuously modified so that they are always matched to the environment in which a population lives

Explanation:

The role of natural selection is to select individuals best adapted to a given ecological condition, allowing them to survive and leave descendants in a given environment.

Natural selection acts permanently on all populations. Even in stable and constant environments, natural selection acts in a stabilizing manner, is present, eliminating divergent phenotypes.

However, the environment does not represent a constant and stable system, in fact, it is always changing, both over time and throughout space, which determines different interactions between organisms and the environment.