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in Class 11 by kratos

Name the phenomenon that governs the following: -

i) Green beetles living in green bushes are not eaten by the crows.

ii) Number of blue beetles in green bushes increases, only because the red beetles living there were trampled by a herd of elephants.

iii) No ‘medium height plants’ are obtained in F1 generation, upon crossing pure tall and dwarf pea plants.

iv) Tails of mice were surgically removed for several generations; still mice had tails in the following generations.

v) A migrant beetle reproduces with the local population; as a result genes of migrant beetle enter the new population.

1 Answer

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by kratos
 
Best answer

i) Natural selection

ii) Genetic drift

iii) Law of Dominance

iv) Acquired characters are not inherited

v) Gene flow

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