Asked by ben hen

What relationship exists between changes in the environment and variations?(1 point)

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

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

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

Changes in the environment cannot change which traits are advantageous.

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

Explanation: Natural selection selects among variants already present (or produced by mutation). Environmental changes alter which traits are advantageous, but they do not directly create the specific heritable variations on which selection acts.