Identify the statement that describes the imperfection of natural selection. Identify the statement that describes the imperfection of natural selection. Natural selection has not had sufficient time to create the optimal design in each case but will do so given enough time. Natural selection is generally limited to modifying structures that were present in previous generations and in previous species. In many cases, phenotype is not merely determined by genotype but by the environment as well. Though we may not consider the fit between the current skeletal arrangements and their functions excellent, we should not doubt that natural selection ultimately produces the best design.

Organisms are classified, or grouped into categories, based on similarities in their characteristics and/or evolutionary relationships. the study of how organisms are classified is known as

Ais a landform that is formed at the mouth of a river from the deposition of sediment carried by the river as the water flows.

1. seamount a raised footwall block between normal fault creates this 2. syncline break between rocks where a hanging wall rises relative to a footwall 3. hot spring on rolling hills, this a dip between hills 4. volcanic neck created when a block with hanging walls slips down between normal faults 5. caldera underwater volcano that never reaches above sea level 6. horst natural hot water on earth's surface containing many minerals 7. graben underwater volcano whose top is eroded flat by waves 8. crater less than a mile in diameter; looks like a bowl at the top of a volcano 9. guyot magma that filled the central vent that remains after the volcano has eroded 10. reverse fault over 1 mile in diameter; looks like a bowl over a volcano