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Chapter 12, Problem 1SL
Burning Question 12.1 explains why an organism cannot be adapted to all environments. Even humans cannot live in all parts of the world. However, technology allows us to live in habitats that would otherwise be deadly. For example, the cold temperatures, low oxygen level, and lack of food on a high mountain would soon kill an unclothed man. However, the same man could survive indefinitely in the same location if he had a warm house and clothing, breathed from an oxygen tank, and grew food in a sophisticated greenhouse. Are human technologies the products of natural selection? Is a human who lives in a harsh environment “adapted” to that environment, even if he must use technology to survive? What areas of the world might be especially difficult to inhabit, even with the use of current or potential future technologies? Why?
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Ch. 12.1 - What are two ways to define evolution?Ch. 12.1 - Prob. 2MCCh. 12.2 - Prob. 1MCCh. 12.2 - What did Darwin observe that led him to develop...Ch. 12.2 - What is modern evolutionary synthesis?Ch. 12.3 - Prob. 1MCCh. 12.3 - Prob. 2MCCh. 12.3 - Prob. 3MCCh. 12.3 - Prob. 4MCCh. 12.4 - Prob. 1MC
Ch. 12.4 - Why doesnt Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium occur in...Ch. 12.5 - Distinguish among directional, disruptive, and...Ch. 12.5 - How can natural selection maintain harmful alleles...Ch. 12.6 - Prob. 1MCCh. 12.6 - Prob. 2MCCh. 12.7 - How do mutations affect an organisms phenotype?Ch. 12.7 - South china tigers once had two color patterns...Ch. 12.7 - Prob. 3MCCh. 12.7 - Prob. 4MCCh. 12 - Microevolution applies to changes that occur a....Ch. 12 - Biological evolution describes how ____ change...Ch. 12 - Prob. 3MCQCh. 12 - What is the most accurate way to explain the...Ch. 12 - Suppose that after an environmental change, foxes...Ch. 12 - Huntington disease is caused by a rare, lethal,...Ch. 12 - A population of 100 sea stars is in Hardy-Weinberg...Ch. 12 - Prob. 8MCQCh. 12 - Darwin observed that different types of organisms...Ch. 12 - Which of the following processes is nonrandom? a....Ch. 12 - Prob. 1WIOCh. 12 - Prob. 2WIOCh. 12 - Explain how understanding evolution is important...Ch. 12 - Write a paragraph that describes the connections...Ch. 12 - Jellyfish Lake, located on the Pacific island of...Ch. 12 - Prob. 6WIOCh. 12 - Explain how harmful recessive alleles can persist...Ch. 12 - Prob. 8WIOCh. 12 - Describe the competing selective forces acting on...Ch. 12 - Some researchers suggest that a giraffes long neck...Ch. 12 - Burning Question 12.1 explains why an organism...Ch. 12 - Review the Survey the Landscape figure in the...Ch. 12 - Describe situations in which the five mechanisms...Ch. 12 - Prob. 3PIT
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