How are learned behaviors related to natural selection?

A. Learned behaviors do not directly affect natural selection because they do not improve the chances that an individual will survive and reproduce.

B. As organisms learn to survive in their environment, their genes change. They then pass these genes to their offspring, and the traits become more common within a population.

C. As organisms learn to survive in their environment, they teach these skills to their offspring. In this way, these traits become more common within a population.

D. Learned behaviors do not directly affect natural selection because they are not inherited.

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Layne Murillo

Biology

3 September, 08:20

How are learned behaviors related to natural selection?

A. Learned behaviors do not directly affect natural selection because they do not improve the chances that an individual will survive and reproduce.

B. As organisms learn to survive in their environment, their genes change. They then pass these genes to their offspring, and the traits become more common within a population.

C. As organisms learn to survive in their environment, they teach these skills to their offspring. In this way, these traits become more common within a population.

D. Learned behaviors do not directly affect natural selection because they are not inherited.

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Nylah Buckley · Answer 1

D. Learned behaviors do not directly affect natural selection because they are not inherited.

This is true because learned behaviors can be taught to the offspring but do not come within them the way instincts do.