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ITBS Level 14 Grade 8 Science 2 — Flashcards

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A certain type of fast-breeding beetle has either large or small mandibles (jaws). The size of the mandibles is genetic. A student takes a randomly selected sample of beetles from the wild and feeds them exclusively on large, hard-shelled seeds. She records the number of large-mandibled and small-mandibled beetles each month, and gets the following data:

Month: Number of large-mandibled beetles: Number of small-mandibled beetles:
1 40 60
2 42 55
3 43 52
4 48 50
5 55 48
6 56 51
7 59 49
8 64 45
9 69 40
10 65 38
11 67 37
12 72 33
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Which of the following best explains the data?
The number of large-mandibled beetles increases because they are best able to cope with the hard-shelled seeds.
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