The answer is B., Natural Selection.
Weather certainly doesn't change populations, and genes only caused individuals in a population to be slightly ( genetically-wise ) different from the others. It does cause change, but not change in the whole population over time.
Natural disasters don't change the populations over time either. Natural disasters only caused change in their environment, at most.
So, the only answer left is natural selection, and it makes sense too!
Natural selection is the process where the individuals with better traits suited to survive in that specific environment live on and give those good traits to their offspring.
The individuals with less suited traits to survive will die out, and will not be given an opportunity to reproduce and pass on their less suited traits, so over time, the population will increase of individuals with better suited traits to survive and the individuals with less suited traits will eventually die out, therefore making the entire population change.
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Although I cannot see the model for Simone's experiment, I can offer the insight that the most likely role of plants in the model is that they consume the carbon atoms and produce oxygen.
<h3>How do plants affect the carbon in the atmosphere?</h3>
- Plants are known to have a<u> great effect</u> on the carbon levels of the atmosphere.
- The correlation is that the more plants are present, the less carbon is free in the air.
- The reason for this is that plants use carbon dioxide as a substrate to manage the process of photosynthesis.
- As a by-product, after consuming carbon dioxide and completing photosynthesis, plants release oxygen into the atmosphere.
Therefore, we can confirm that the most likely role of plants in the model created by Simone, is that they will consume carbon atoms in the form of carbon dioxide in order to sustain photosynthesis, which releases oxygen.
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