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Which statement does not accurately describe natural selection?
A
Individual organisms' fur turns white during the winter to camouflage them in the snow.
B
The genetic composition of a population changes from one generation to the next.
C
More advantageous traits become more common in populations.
D
Beneficial and useful traits are inherited generation after generation.
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Natural selection does not make individual organisms change their traits during their lifetime. It acts on heritable variation across generations, changing the genetic composition of populations. Seasonal fur color change is an individual physiological response (molting/phenotypic plasticity), not evolution by natural selection (though the tendency to molt can itself be selected).
Natural selection does not make individual organisms change their traits during their lifetime. It acts on heritable variation across generations, changing the genetic composition of populations. Seasonal fur color change is an individual physiological response (molting/phenotypic plasticity), not evolution by natural selection (though the tendency to molt can itself be selected).
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