To determine: The major theme among the relationships between structure to function, information flow, pathways that transform energy and matter, interactions within biological systems, or evolution, that is evident and related with the given statement, “In dry climates, natural selection would favor species that form hearty seeds that allow a plant embryo to survive periods of drought”.
Introduction:
Evolution is a process where change occurs in living things over the time periods that are successfully inherited and passed to future generations. It occurs when four factors come together, including differential reproduction and survival, variation, inheritance, and high rate of population growth.
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