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Sholpan [36]3 years ago

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Answer:

False.

Explanation:

This statement is false because organisms don't evolve - populations do. New gene variants (i.e., alleles) are produced by random mutation, and over the course of many generations, natural selection may favor advantageous variants, causing them to become more common in the population. However, because mutation rates are low relative to population growth in most species, mutation alone doesn't have much of an effect on evolution.

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