The following plots represent the body size distributions of a fruit fly population. Dashed lines represent the ancestral distributions and continuous lines represent the distributions after a few generations. If the larger individuals have better survival as well as higher reproductive rates, which diagram below best represents the expected change in the distribution of body size (X-axis represents body size while Y-axis represents frequency)?
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A population of finch birds with medium sized beaks colonizes an island with plants producing medium and large sized seeds. After a disease wipes out all the plants with medium sized seeds, what is most likely to happen to the finches?
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