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What factors affect natural selection? Select three options.
isolation
variation
overpopulation
adaptation
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Correct choices: isolation, variation, and overpopulation.
- Variation: provides the raw material (different traits) on which selection can act.
- Overpopulation (overproduction): leads to competition for limited resources so some individuals survive and reproduce more than others.
- Isolation: by reducing gene flow between groups, it allows different selective pressures to act and can accelerate divergence.
Adaptation is the result of natural selection, not a factor that drives it.
- Variation: provides the raw material (different traits) on which selection can act.
- Overpopulation (overproduction): leads to competition for limited resources so some individuals survive and reproduce more than others.
- Isolation: by reducing gene flow between groups, it allows different selective pressures to act and can accelerate divergence.
Adaptation is the result of natural selection, not a factor that drives it.
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