Darwin lived in a time where natural selection was a strange theory among scientists and researchers. This was especially true when other researcher Lamarck argued that organisms passed on helpful traits to their offspring, that they magically could form a new trait to adapt to their environment and then pass it onto their offspring. For example, if a giraffe was too short to reach food, it would grow a larger neck in its lifetime and then pass that trait onto its offspring. Darwin argued that, through the process of survival of the fittest, that short giraffe would die off and never receive the chance to pass on its shortness to future populations. Thus, taller giraffes would survive— they can reach food, shorter giraffes can’t— and the short genes would disappear. The fact that Darwin was introducing a new theory that nobody was used to at the time was peculiar, so he had few people on his side until long after his observations.
Another problem Darwin had was the lack of technology. To travel, Darwin would have to use boats to reach far away places, and of course, this took time.
The final problem Darwin had was the extra time it took for evolution, a process that can take up to millions of years. Evolution didn’t occur over night— it took time for Darwin to conduct experiments, observe, conduct them again, come to a conclusion, and so on.
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The answer would be D because it leaves you thinking about what will happen next. Hope this helped you out .
Answer:
1. Bring new alleles from DNA
2. Favor certain alleles
3. Creates new alleles from DNA
4. Randomly selects alleles
Explanation:
1. The zebra enters a separate population, bringing their unique makeup into a group with similar genetic makeup
2. The organisms with genes for shorter heights will eventually die off, favoring organisms with greater height
3. The snake's DNA changes, allowing it to create stronger venom
4. The deaths of the animals weren't planned or the result of greater genes.
