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Describe an environmental factor that could influence natural selection and increase genetic diversity. Pick a specific example to illustrate your point.

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One environmental factor could be toxins. If a frog develops a poisonous venom from its DNA to help it protect itself from predators and reproduces, there could be more frogs with this allele. This would influence natural selection and increase genetic biodiversity because many frogs wouldn't have that allele, however, it will become more and more common.

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Environmental factors influences greatly in natural selection and genetic diversity. The environmental conditions can be change in temperature. The animals or plants living in an area have to adapt themselves during the change in environmental conditions.

And also when the limiting factor exists, the organisms have to compete with each other and whatever organism is able to sustain in that factor are able to make up a population and this is called as natural selection. Natural selection leads to genetic diversity.

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