38. A population of fish living in a polluted river shows increased tolerance to toxins over generations. According to Darwin’s natural selection, this is because:

  • Individual fish consciously adapted to the pollution.
  • Fish inherited acquired detoxification abilities from their parents.
  • Fish with pre-existing higher toxin tolerance survived better and reproduced more.
  • The pollution directly caused favorable mutations in all fish.
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