A scientist was studying a population of elephants. The first year, he counted a population of 80. Over the next eight years, the population's numbers were 94, 100, 103, 110, 125, 120, 125, 120. What appears to be the carrying capacity for this population? 120 124 125 126

Which conditions are necessary for natural selection to occur? select all of the answers that apply. a. inheritable adaptations vary among individuals. b. the population size is increasing. c. more individuals are born than can survive. d. fitness varies among individuals. e. the environment changes suddenly and drastically.

Which of the following scenarios is an example of the bottleneck effect? answers a in south africa, much of the afrikaner population is descended from a small number of dutch colonists. in this population, this is an unusually high frequency of pseudoxanthoma elasticum (pxe), an elastic tissue disorder. b four white-tailed deer are introduced to a park in finland. thirty years after their introduction scientists compare the genes in the population and find that there is no variation. c during the industrial revolution, london's air became filled with soot. as a result, birds started eating more of the lighter moths because they were easier to spot than their darker counterparts. over time, the moth population changed so that there were more darker moths than lighter ones. d 10% of the population of american alligators in an area have the recessive trait albinism. a massive flood results in the death of 80% of the population. of the remaining population, 60% have the recessive trait of albinism.

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