Which of the following is not a part of the modern theory of evolution?

a) diversity exists within a species, and "experiments" that tend to promote diversity sometimes occur during reproduction.
b) a "successful experiment" during reproduction is one that increases the ability of an individual to have children who survive to have children.
c) children are more similar to their parents than to other individuals from their parents’ generation.
d) evolution proceeds in the direction desired by members of a generation.
e) if a reproductive "experiment" is successful, it will be passed to more and more children in successive generations until all members of a population have it.

D

Explanation:

D) Evolution proceeds in the direction desired by members of a generation is not the modern theory of evolution.

Evolution can not proceed in the direction as desire by the members of the generation as No matter how hard you and your friends wish that your children will be born with the ability to fly unassisted, the kids will have to use airlines like the rest of us. All the rest of these contribute to evolution

air exerts forces on falling objects near earth’s surface.

explanation:

the term 'free falls' refer to object that are falling towards the earth, in a situation in which gravity is the only force acting on the object.

for an object in free fall, the acceleration is constant (g, the gravitational acceleration), and so the velocity of the object constantly increases.

for objects near earth's surface, there is always another force acting on the object: the resistance due to the air. this force is opposed to the direction of fall of the object, and it is proportional to the velocity of the object, so as the object falls down, this force increases up to a point when it balances the force of gravity, and the object continues its motion at constant velocity (called terminal velocity). since in this case gravity is not the only force acting on the object, we are not in a situation of free fall.

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