Question

Part 2

Answer 1

A school has a spelling contest where, at each round, the poorest spellers are eliminated. By the time they send 5 students to the state championships, they have found the best spellers in the school. This might be called


survival of the fittest.

evolution.

differential mortality.

differential fecundity.

Answer 2

brb

Answer 3

k

Answer 4

What do you think?

Answer 5

no clue

Answer 6

Let's see what survival of fittest mean

Answer 7

ok

Answer 8

Suppose there are 5 people and we send them to jungle. One is singer, one is actor, one is navy seal, one is engineer and one is doctor. Whom do you think will survive?

Answer 9

the navy seal?

Answer 10

Yes. He will have the most probability to survive. Because he is fittest in sense he is habituated to survive in jungle condition.

Answer 11

Cool?

Answer 12

YEP

Answer 13

Now, let's take the example of the question.

We take 10 students and put them in spelling contest. In the first round we eliminate the poorest one. So basically in this round top 9 fittest will survive. Right?

Answer 14

Fittest in sense those who are good at spelling

Answer 15

oh, so A?

Answer 16

Yes. we do this testing for 4 more rounds and we get the 5 most fittest spellers !

Answer 17

ok last one:
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What causes the original "new trait" in a population?


Genetic mixing

Cross-breeding with other species

Random mutations

All of the above

Answer 18

What do you think?

Answer 19

i was thinking all of the above...

Answer 20

That's correct!

Answer 21

You are a smart bunny c:

Answer 22

YAY, thanks!

Answer 23

bye!

Answer 24

Adios!