Multiple Choice
The fact that mutations are random and independent of "need implies that:
A) a population could become extinct because it lacks the variation to evolve.
B) every population must already contain all the variants of the alleles that it could ever potentially need.
C) a perfectly adapted population will have no variation.
D) mutation rate increases with environmental instability.
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