Given below are two statements each with one or more blanks. Select the option which correctly fills up the blanks in the statements.

Statements:

In a mixed population, those that can better-adapt, ___(i) ___ and increase in JDOpuiation size. No variant

is ___(ii)___ wiped out. Similarly, excess use of herbicides, pesticides, etc., has only resulted in selection of

resistant varieties in a much (iii) time scale. This is also true for microbes against which

we employ antibiotics or drugs against eukaryotic organisms/cell. Hence, resistant organisms/cells are appearing

in a time scale of months or years and not centuries. These are examples of evolution bv (iv) action. This

also tells us that evolution is not a (v) process in the sense of determinism. It is a (vi)___ process based on

chance events in nature and chance (vii) in the organisms.