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Industrial melanism is an example of:

  • Option 1)

    Natural selection

  • Option 2)

    Mutation

  • Option 3)

    Neo Lamarckism

  • Option 4)

    Neo Darwinism

 

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Industrial Melanism -

It is the appearance of dark melanic forms of some organism like moths in the industrial region where soot emission from burning of coal has been heavy so as to color the background.

- wherein

Example of the moth that survived natural selection as it was black and escaped unnoticed by the birds.

 

 


Option 1)

Natural selection

This option is correct.

Option 2)

Mutation

This option is incorrect.

Option 3)

Neo Lamarckism

This option is incorrect.

Option 4)

Neo Darwinism

This option is incorrect.

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Sabhrant Ambastha

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