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Read this passage about two inherited traits in rock pocket mice. Rock pocket mice are small desert rodents that live either on sand and light-colored rock or on black lava rock. A rock pocket mouse may have either brown fur or black fur. A mouse's fur color can help it hide from predators. For example, a mouse with brown fur can blend in with light-colored sand and rock, and a mouse with black fur can blend in with black lava rock. a rock pocket mouse with brown fur The rock pocket mice's environment changed to have less light-colored rock than black lava rock. After this change, over a time period long enough for natural selection to occur, the percentage of the rock pocket mouse population with black fur increased. Use the theory of natural selection to construct a possible explanation for how the rock pocket mouse population adapted to its changed environment. Having brown furwas more * advantageous than having black fur after the environment changed. So the alleles for black fur were passed on with lower * frequency than the alleles for brown fur. As a result, the proportion of the population with brown fur increased * . Over time, the population adapted such that the percentage of mice that were easily visible to predators decreased *