The reptile is evolving over millions of years.
If the mutation is beneficial, the mutated organism survives to reproduce, and the mutation gets passed on to its offspring. In this way, natural selection guides the evolutionary process to incorporate only the good mutations into the species, and expunge the bad mutations.
Answer:
Your question is incomplete.
Explanation:
Although this is a correct statement, since in the species of land turtles the temperature is a determinant of sex.
If the egg is exposed to temperatures below 40-38 degrees Celsius, the sex will tend to be male or male, and if a temperature of 40 degrees Celsius occurs constantly throughout the incubation, it will be female.
