Scenario 2: You are applying for a scholarship, and the application requires a short essay. The prompt asks you to describe a challenge you faced in your first semester of college and how you overcame it. The scholarship committee wants to see how well you can communicate your experiences and demonstrate resilience.   Content: Which sentence best introduces your central point in a formal and reflective way?

The movement of tectonic plates can cause the separation of species and lead to speciation.

Which evolutionary process stabilizes allele frequency across populations?

The human population growth rate has been constant for the past 200 years.

Which factor contributes to the persistence of harmful alleles?

Why are fossil fuels indirectly linked to the population explosion?  

Darwin’s theory of natural selection is based on the idea that not all individuals survive and reproduce equally.

What is a common outcome of sexual selection?

What term in the exponential growth equation G=rNG=rN represents the intrinsic growth rate?

The movement of tectonic plates can cause the separation of species and lead to speciation.