Environmental scientists are using GPS ( It is effective but expensive) aerial monitoring (Quick but not the easiest), RFID tags, (mostly for long-term monitoring) and hidden cameras are used to study polar bear behavior without interruption to their environment.
There is only one measure of "evolutionary success": having more offspring. A "useful" trait gets conserved and propagated by the simple virtue of there being more next-generation individuals carrying it and particular genetic feature "encoding" it. That's all there is to it.
One can view this as genes "wishing" to create phenotypic features that would propagate them (as in "Selfish Gene"), or as competition between individuals, or groups, or populations. But those are all metaphors making it easier to understand the same underlying phenomenon: random change and environmental pressure which makes the carrier more or less successful at reproduction.
You will sometimes hear the term "evolutionary successful species" applied to one that spread out of its original niche, or "evolutionary successful adaptation" for one that spread quickly through population (like us or our lactase persistence mutation), but, again, that's the same thing.
Answer:
D. Beautiful leaves
Explanation:
All of the other answers are factual. However, something such as beauty can only be decided in an opinionated and biased way.
Noah's principle is a concept that comes from the Biblical story found in the old testament where God gave Noah instructions to build an ark to save him and his family .
The concept here is that God did not tell Noah when it was going to rain. The people of the day most probably mocked and derided Noah as a time waster or a fool. That is, until the flood came. The " fool" had been wiser all along.
An Application is this. Google gives everyone who does online business "suggestions" and "guidelines" but not everyone chooses to listen. Google rarely, if ever, tells us when they will put the guidelines into action.
Panda, a Google ranking system, took 6 years while Google was telling online users to follow certain guidelines. Many ignored, until Panda was put into action, and those who had not heeded suffered with only themselves to blame.
Moral: Heed and prepare even if the outcome tarries.
I believe the answer is D.
The purpose of the large intestine is to absorb water and salts from the material that has not been digested as food, and get rid of any waste products left over.
Hope this helps! Sorry if incorrect
