During drought years on the Galapagos, small, easily eaten seeds become rare, leaving mostly large, hard-cased seeds that only birds w/ large beaks can eat. If a drought persists for several yrs, what should one expect to result from natural selection?
A. larger birds eating less so smaller birds can survive
B. more small-beaked birds dying than large-beaked birds. The offspring produce in subsequent generations have a higher % of birds w/ larger beaks
C. small birds mutating their beak genes w/ the result that later-generation offspring have larger beaks
D. small birds gaining larger beaks by exercising their mouth parts

Select all the correct answers. which statements fail to meet the requirements of a scientific claim? a) in the final 100 meters of a 10,000-meter race, an athlete's speed is more strongly related to anaerobic efficiency than to aerobic efficiency. b) flowers that reflect the most ultraviolet light are more likely to attract bees and other pollinators than flowers that reflect less ultraviolet light. c) even though evidence indicates that the solar system's planets follow elliptical paths, copernicus's model involving circular orbits is true. d) the evidence supporting newton's laws of motion was accurate in newton's time, but the universe operates differently today.