2g- Fitness Flashcards
1
Q
What is fitness an indication of?
A
An individuals ability to be successful at surviving and reproducing
2
Q
What is fitness a measure of?
A
The tendency of some organisms to produce more surviving offspring than competing members of the same species
3
Q
What does fitness refer to?
A
The contribution made to the gene pool of the next generation by individual genotypes
4
Q
How can fitness be defined?
A
In absolute or relative terms
5
Q
What is absolute fitness?
A
The ratio between the frequency of individuals of a particular genotype after selection, to those before selection
6
Q
What does it mean if the absolute fitness is 1?
A
The frequency of that genotype is stable, a value greater than one conveys an increase in that genotype and a value less than one conveys a decrease
