Variation allows some individuals within a population to adapt to the changing environment. Because natural selection acts directly only on phenotypes, more genetic variation within a population usually enables more phenotypic variation.
This means in order to make one molecule of glucose ________ oxygen atoms are used and twelve oxygen atoms<span> are left over as a waste product. In the chemical equation above it takes six carbon dioxide molecules and 6 water molecules to make one molecule of glucose.
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