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What Is Life? 2nd Edition by Jay Phelan

Edition 2ISBN: 978-1464102448
book What Is Life? 2nd Edition by Jay Phelan cover

What Is Life? 2nd Edition by Jay Phelan

Edition 2ISBN: 978-1464102448
Exercise 13
Natural selection:
A) does not influence aging, because aging is determined by an individual's environment.
B) cannot reduce the frequency of alleles that cause mortality among individuals who have not yet reached maturity.
C) cannot weed out from a population any alleles that do not reduce an individual's relative reproductive success, even if these alleles increase an individual's risk of dying.
D) can influence aging but not longevity.
E) leads to an increase in the frequency of any illness-inducing alleles that have their effect when an organism can reproduce.
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The correct Answerto this question is c)...

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