Blue beetles surviving because an elephant crushed the bushes is a case of:
AGenetic drift
BGenetic coding
CGenetic mapping
DGenetic linkage
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Genetic drift
1. The blue beetles did not survive because blue gave them any advantage.
2. It was simply a matter of accidental survival after most beetles were killed.
3. This is an example of genetic drift, which provides diversity without any adaptation.
_Source: syllabus Science, Ch 9 'Heredity and Evolution'_
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