23 ### Natural Selection and Adaptation Exam Questions#### 21. Which of the following is the best possible explanation for the change in the data?- **A.** Forest fires wiped out the preferred habitat of the light-colored moths- **B.** Light-colored moths decreased due to a disease specific to the light phenotype- **C.** Sexual selection preferences of the female moths changed to favor the dark-colored male moths- **D.** Trees darkened during the Industrial Revolution resulting in an increased fitness of dark-colored moths#### 22. When investigating the shell color of a species of snail found only in a remote area seldom visited by humans, scientists discovered the distribution of snails shown in the graph to the right. Based on the graph, which type of natural selection is the snail population undergoing?- **A.** Directional selection- **B.** Disruptive selection- **C.** Stabilizing selection**Graph Explanation:**- The graph shown is a bar graph displaying the "Number of Individuals" on the y-axis and "Coloration" on the x-axis ranging from light to dark.- The distribution of the snail population is bimodal, with peaks at the extreme ends (light and dark coloration) and fewer individuals with intermediate coloration. This bimodal distribution suggests disruptive selection, where extreme phenotypes are favored over intermediate phenotypes.#### 23. In a population of finches in which one subset of birds has a short, parrot-like beak and a second subset has a long, narrow beak, which type of natural selection has the finch population likely undergone?- **A.** Directional selection- **B.** Disruptive selection- **C.** Stabilizing selection

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