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What is natural selection?
a process that selects variations that help with survival and that spreads the variations to more offspring
a process through which nature selects an individual within a population for extinction
a process that causes all populations to gradually increase in size
a process that causes random variations to appear in the offspring of every generation

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Correct answer: "a process that selects variations that help with survival and that spreads the variations to more offspring."

Explanation: Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in heritable traits. It increases the frequency of beneficial (fitness-enhancing) variations in a population over generations. It does not itself create random variation (that’s mutation and recombination), does not intentionally select individuals for extinction, and does not guarantee population growth.