Which of the following statements is true about variation?

Varaiations always produce survival advantages

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Variations help in organic evolution

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Variations do not produce biodiversity

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Variations always produce harmful effects in a population

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Solution

The correct option is B
Variations help in organic evolution

Variations are the basic tenet for for evolution of organisms, yielding to diversity and in most of the cases produces survival advantage. But survival advantage by variation is not always mandatory to be produced only by variations at genetic level.

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