A. The birds had beaks that were adapted for feeding differently
Answer: frameshift mutation
Explanation: A frameshift mutation is a particular type of mutation that involves either insertion or deletion of extra bases of DNA. Now, what's important here is the number three. The number of bases that are either added or subtracted can't be divisible by three.
Reported or indirect speech is usually used to talk about the past, so we normally change the tense of the words spoken. We use reporting verbs like 'say', 'tell', 'ask', and we may use the word 'that' to introduce the reported words. Inverted commas are not used.
