How can mutations affect evolutionary processes? A) Mutations are novel genes that increase an organism’s fitness in the environ
ment. B) Mutations are new genotypes that cause an organism to be more poorly fit due to non-functional essential genes within its genome. C) Mutations are changes in the genome that can code for new phenotypes that may be selected for or against by the environmental pressures. D) Mutations are changes to protein structure that create new genotypes that can be selected for or against by the environmental pressures.
Option A is incorrect as mutations may be detrimental to the organism and are not always beneficial. Option B is incorrect as there are instances where mutations may enable organisms to be better adapted to the environment. Option D is incorrect as genotypes are not selected for or selected against by environmental pressures, it is only the phenotype (exhibitable/ visible traits) that can be selected for or against, hence option C is the answer.
Red-cockaded woodpeckers are sharp, socially adroit, and adorable.
They assemble settles by unearthing pits in old pine trees in the Southeast, which was an incredible transformative system until individuals cleaved down 97 percent of their natural surroundings.
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Snakes are a portion of their most risky home predators</em>, so the <em>winged animals peck the pine trees' bark </em>to make sap overflow down the tree trunk. The smooth of sap stops winds and protects the nest cavities above.
Each pine tree in a backwoods into timber or turpentine, it sets aside a long effort for trees to become large enough to help respectable size home depressions.
The <em>tree timberlands these flying creatures</em> advanced in was intermittently gotten out by fire, which is currently typically stifled, prompting woods that are unreasonably thick ridiculous.
