# Questão 54bc8f35-d9 — Inglês

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- **Código:** 54bc8f35-d9
- **Disciplina:** [Inglês](https://dicasdoenem.com.br/disciplina/16-ingles)
- **Área:** [Linguagens](https://dicasdoenem.com.br/area/linguagens)
- **Ano:** [2017](https://dicasdoenem.com.br/ano/2017)
- **Instituição:** Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri de Minas Gerais
- **Assuntos:** Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
- **Nível:** Muito difícil
- **Gabarito:** alternativa D

## Enunciado

Leia o texto II para responder à questão

Texto II


CITIES DRIVE ANIMALS AND PLANTS TO EVOLVE

Species are adapting to urban pollution, traffic and shrinking habitats through changes in their genes
By Sharon Oosthoek - Apr 6, 2017

![Imagem da questão de Inglês, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri de Minas Gerais 2017, Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension](https://dicasdoenem.com.br/imagens/67/67511e47309afd9310090ebfcb54c19cc0e6134fec42645001c08321db2adee3.png)

Ever seen a raccoon open a trash can in search of leftovers? Or
walk across power lines to get from one rooftop to another? If so, you've
witnessed an animal adapting its behavior to city life. That's been going
on since people started building cities thousands of years ago. Now,
biologists are seeing signs that animals and plants are also adapting in a
more basic way to survive in cities. Their genes are changing.


Genes are segments of DNA that influence how an organism
looks and functions. An animal or plant’s DNA is like an instruction book
for how it develops and grows. Some instructions guide its reproductive
habits. Others influence the way it moves. Still others might let it withstand poison. Urban pollution, traffic
and shrinking wild spaces have been causing changes in these genetic instructions. And scientists have
been tracking more and more signs of these genetic changes.

When genes change in response to their environment, it’s called evolution. Some of those changes
may leave animals and plants better suited to their homes. It may offer new traits that increase the odds of
surviving long enough to reproduce. This means the individuals will pass on these new traits to their
offspring. Eventually, traits that had once been rare can now become common throughout a population.

Fonte: <https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/cities-drive-animals-and-plants-evolve> Acesso: 06/06/2017.

Segundo o texto, a evolução ocorre quando os genes:

## Alternativas

- **A)** comportam-se como manual de instruções.
- **B)** passam a incluir traços menos competitivos.
- **C)** permitem que espécies desenvolvam doenças.
- **D)** modificam-se em resposta ao seu meio-ambiente. ✔ **correta**

## Resposta correta

Alternativa **D**.

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