Uncertain about the best way to keep his new lizard alive, jerome places a heat lamp at one end of the long lizard cage. over several days, jerome notices that the lizard tends to sit in a certain place when the lamp is on. the lizard's selection of a particular place to stay represents itsa) range of tolerance. b) temperature optimum. c) biotic conditioning. d) use of a limited resource

Temperature Optimum

Explanation:

Each organism exhibits maximum growth and survival under certain values of abiotic factors. The temperature that supports maximum growth and development of a particular organism represents its temperature optimum.

The lizard in the question has selected some places where the temperature is best suited to it. The selection of the particular place to obtain the best possible temperature conditions represents its temperature optimum.

the two answers are a, the population of birds with large beaks will increase on the island, and c, the trait for large beaks will be passed on to future generations through natural selection. the reason for that is because if the birds that have beaks developed for eating small seeds lose all of their food, they will go hungry and eventually starve because they physically cannot eat the large seeds, therefore making the population of large beaked birds higher. also, if the trait of large beaks are dominant on the island over small beaks, then over time the large beaked birds will reproduce more and more, while the smaller beaked birds will reproduce less and less because they can't survive with the food provided. that leads to the trait of small beaks disappearing and the trait of large beaks taking over the island.