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ASVAB Paragraph Comprehension 3.4 Inference. This type of change in the moth population would be an example of...what?

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Thank you We sneak in And here's your smoke du

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jour brought to you by charles darwin whose preoccupation with

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tortoises helped shape the modern world Check the following passage

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You're of evolution's way bomb Who patient there's adapter Natural

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selection's knows Speaks of moscow mother It has generated very

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few gray models and more black All right This type

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of change in the moth population would be an example

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of what i hear the potential answers Evolution the profound

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process that took us from neanderthal sitting in front of

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cave drawings modern human sitting in front of facebook Well

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the process of evolution has different components in this moth

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example demonstrates one of them Let's Remove the easy answers

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first genetic drift while it sounds cool kind of like

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surfboard ng on the back of the double helix Well

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it's not mentioned anywhere in the text so it's not

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relevant here and he is out mutation is defined as

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the process of genetic divergence that happens during reproduction I

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offspring are slightly different than their parents but that's not

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what's happening in this example so is not the answer

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either Adaptation refers to a feature that's common in a

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population because it provides improved functionality like the long necks

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of giraffes that help them reach the trees or the

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mustache is of hipsters that demonstrate their social dominance But

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that's not really what the case is example Fine This

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case is showing how a set Of characteristics allowed certain

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populations of moss to survive better than others As the

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text explains this is the process of natural selection where

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those organisms with beneficial freights survived and the others not

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so much so Option c is the correct answer We're

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certainly glad we selected this choice It makes us feel

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like a natural charles darwin would be proud Oh yeah

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