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How can natural selection account for the long about of an anteater?
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How does natural selection affect the frequency of mutatons?
Natural selection works on mutations that are already in place. The environmental changes will select for certain mutations if the selective pressure is supplied long enough for several generations of offspring to carry a higher percentage of the mutation.
What is the name for the process that causes a species to evolve?
Evolution is enabled by natural selection: the ability of a species through its individuals to make long-term improved changes in its response to its environment through beneficial mutations, resulting in the species being able to reproduce itself more successfully than before.
Who proposed natural selection as a mechanism of evolution?
At the Linnaen Society meeting sometime in 1858 Charles Robert Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace had both their papers presented before the Society on which they proposed the idea of natural selection as a mechanism of evolution.
Does natural selection eliminate Huntington's disease?
No. Typically the symptoms of HD do not become apparent until long after a person would be of child bearing age.
What theory purposes that evolution occurs steadily in tiny changes over long periods of time?
That's part of the theory of evolution by natural selection (Darwinism) but not the main principle, and some other (obsolete) theories also included this belief. I don't know if there is a more specific answer, but if you can't find one, just go with natural selection.
What are the particular characteristics of an anteater?
The anteater has a long snout. Since the anteater is toothless, it has a long tongue that it uses to catch the ants. The anteater uses its snout and claws to reach into ant nests. The anteater has long hair as a protection against bites from the ants that they hunt and eat.
What was in the Darwin's book the Origin of Species?
One long argument with supporting evidence for the theory of evolution by natural selection. Starting with artificial selection, used as an analogue for natural selection, and ending with the distribution of animals, biogeography, Darwin showed the species arose through natural process over long lengths of time.
This insectivore has a long tongue and nose which it uses to pick up ants?
The insectivore that has a long tongue and eats ants is a aardvark. The aardvark also has a long nose.
Did the theory of natural selection come before heliocentric theory?
No. Not by a long shot.
What resulted from a genetic variation that was favored by natural selection?
the long neck of a giraffe
What was natural selection based on during the holocaust?
The Holocaust has nothing to do with natural selection, or vice versa. The Holocaust was the result of atrocious crimes committed under the leadership of a few madmen, inspired by a long tradition of antisemitism. Natural selection is a model that describes differential reproductive success in natural populations, under natural circumstances.
How long does the anteater live?
24years
What animal has a long tonge to suck up ants?
The answer is a anteater. Let me know if there is any thing else.
Which of the following resulted from a genetic variation that was favored by natural selection?
The Long Neck of a Giraffe .
What does natural selection over long periods of time lead to?
Natural selection over long periods of time leads to a fitter and more reproductively successful group of organisms thus becoming more common in a population. It will lead to evolution.
Are Anteaters in danger?
The Giant Anteater is classed as 'Near Threatened' by the IUCN. As anteaters are placid creatures they are preyed upon by large cats such as Pumas and Jaguars. However, a cornered anteater will ride up on its hind legs, using its tail for support and use its long claws which are 4 inches long, to fight off the attacker. Anteaters are also hunted in South America for fur and food.
Which type of selection can result in branching evolution if it goes on long enough?
Natural selection is the type of selection that can result in a branching evolutionary tree if it goes on long enough. This is because organisms may eventually evolve into a distinct species.
