Long-term evolution experiments in laboratory populations of E. coli are valuable for all of the following reasons EXCEPT that they allow researchers to
A) precisely replicate natural populations of E. coli evolving in the wild.
B) study evolution over tens of thousands of generations.
C) create replicate populations that start from the same initial conditions.
D) directly complete ancestors to their descendants.

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Long-term evolution experiments in laboratory populations of E. coli cannot precisely replicate natural populations evolving in the wild because the experimental conditions in the laboratory are very different from natural conditions. For example, the E. coli in the laboratory experiments are grown in a constant environment, while wild populations are subject to changing environmental conditions.

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