Questions

Heritable variation is one of the four most important factors that affect whether natural selection can occur. These factors include

1) Heritable variation

2) Descent with modification

3) Struggle for survival, and necessarily if the others are satisfied

4) Survival of the fittest.

Heritable variation allows for possibly beneficial, negative, or even neutral mutations to get filtered during each generation by natural selection--weeding out negative mutations, passing on positive and neutral ones. Without heritable variation, species would quickly fall victim to parasites who take advantage of identical genetic material in a population and evolution would not occur.

Variation is the raw material of evolution.

Yes, using the realloc() function as shown below:

main()

{

        int *p;

        p = ( int *) malloc (20) ;

        t = p;

        t = (int *) realloc ( p, 40);

        if ( t == NULL )

        Printf (" Cannot reallocate, leaves previous allocated region unchanged ");

       else

       {

              if ( p ==t )

              ;  / * the array expanded at the same region */

             else

            { 

                 free ( p ); / * deallocate the original array */

                 p = t;  /* set p to newly allocated region */

             }

      }

}  

Anions are atoms or radicals (groups of atoms), that have gained electrons. Since they now have more electrons than protons, anions have a negative charge.

In latest generation computers, the instructions are executed both sequencially and parallelly.