Plants and Society 7th Edition by Estelle Levetin ,Karen McMahon

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Darwin identified four conditions that are necessary if evolution is to occur: genetic variation, overproduction of offspring, competition for limited resources, and reproduction of the fittest.
Imagine a plant population that reproduces entirely by asexual methods, such as spreading by underground stems. Although there are many individual plants in the population, they are essentially a single plant genetically; that is, they are clones. Can natural selection act on a population of clones Is this population capable of evolving Explain.