Suppose some natural disaster occurs and a species of finch is forced to relocate from its original island where it dined on cactus flowers to an adjacent island with many fewer cacti but an overabundance of orchids. what would be the immediate consequences to the species in the first month of the change?

a. the species would change its eating habits to feed on orchids.
b. all of the members of the species would make do with the existing cacti on their new island.
c. the entire species would go extinct.
d. most of the members of the species would die but some would survive.

The upper forelimbs of humans and bats have fairly similar skeletal structures, whereas the correspondingbones in whales have very different shapes and proportions. however, genetic data suggest that all three kindsof organisms diverged from a common ancestor at about the same time. which of the following is the mostlikely explanation for these data? a) humans and bats evolved by natural selection, and whales evolved by lamarckian mechanisms. b) forelimb evolution was adaptive in people and bats, but not in whales. c) natural selection in an aquatic environment resulted in significant changes to whale forelimb anatomy. d) genes mutate faster in whales than in humans or bats. e) whales are not properly classified as mammals.