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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Answer:
Answer B.
Explanation:
Biological Fitness, also called darwinian fitness, means the ability to survive to reproductive age, find a mate, and produce offspring. basically, the more offspring an organism produces during its lifetime, the greater its biological fitness.
Answer:
1. The gametophyte generation is haploid.
2. The embryo is diploid.
3. The megaspore is haploid.
4. The sporophyte generation is diploid.
Explanation:
1. Gametophyte- The gametophytic generation is the structure which produces gametes in the plant. Since the gametes are haploid, therefore, the gametophyte us considered the haploid.
2. Embryo- The embryo is formed after the fusion of fertilization when zygote develops, therefore, is considered diploid.
3. Megaspore- the big size spore which is formed from by the meiotic division of the megasporocyte, therefore, is considered haploid.
4. Sporophyte- the sporophyte generation develops from the embryo which is diploid therefore is considered diploid.
Answer:
B. Sun -> Algae -> Shrimp -> Red drum
Explanation:
The only way for the Sun to transfer energy is through plants, which rely on sunlight for food.
D. is incorrect, because plants cannot consume other vegetation.
If a person is "sterile", this means that they cannot reproduce. The word "sterilized" is essentially stating that there is no productive activity in order to be able to reproduce.
