Which of the following is a step specific to the process of artificial selection?
A) Members of a population possess heritable variations.
B) The population produces more offspring than the environment can support.
C) Individuals who have favorable traits survive and reproduce more than those individuals lacking such traits.
D) People select which individuals breed and which ones do not.
E) Over multiple generations of reproducing, a larger proportion of the population will have those favorable traits and thus adaptation has occurred.

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Artificial selection is characterized by human intervention in the selection of breeding individuals, unlike natural selection where environmental pressures determine which individuals survive and reproduce.

Which of the Following Is a Step Specific to the Process