Question 80

(Multiple Choice)

The following questions refer to the description below.
You are taking a group of students on a nature walk around the university campus.Several students come up and show you oak leaves they collected from one tree.The students are confused as to why you they see such variation in leaf size if all the leaves came from one tree and are genetically identical.
-An organism inherits genetic information from its parents,but it is also influenced by its environment.The ability of plants to alter their form in response to local environmental conditions is referred to as


A)morphological differences.
B)genetic influences.
C)environmental pressures.
D)phenotypic or developmental plasticity.
E)adaptability.

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