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frez [133]
3 years ago
5

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Biology
1 answer:
anastassius [24]3 years ago
8 0
Natural Selection is a process in which certain traits become more common or not. This is determined by the necessity of certain traits and the environment the species finds itself in. Natural selection only acts on existing traits because they are the traits active in a given species in a given environment.
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