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What relationship exists between changes in the environment and variations?(1 point)
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Changes in the environment cannot change which traits are advantageous.
Changes in the environment cannot change which traits are advantageous.

Changes in the environment cannot influence the fitness of an organism.
Changes in the environment cannot influence the fitness of an organism.

Changes in the environment can only cause new variations to appear.
Changes in the environment can only cause new variations to appear.

Changes in the environment can act only on existing variations in a population.
Changes in the environment can act only on existing variations in a population.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Changes in the environment can act only on existing variations in a population.

Explanation: Environmental changes alter which traits are advantageous and thus change fitness, but natural selection works on variation already present in the population rather than creating new heritable variants.