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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.

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

Explanation: Environmental change alters which traits are advantageous (and thus an organism's fitness), but it does not create new heritable variation — natural selection acts on variation already present.