Natural Selection Flashcards
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Natural Selection is
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How nature selects the individual that best fit the environment
2
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In Natural Selection those who survive will be able to
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Reproduce and inherits its genes to their offspring thus changing its population
3
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Process of Natural Selection
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Variation
Overproduction
Best adapted individuals more likely to survive and reproduce
Alleles that confer useful adaptations more likely to be passed on
4
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Reasons why natural selection happens
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A new allele could arise just by chance if mutation
Environment could change so that features that once helped an organism to survive are no longer as useful
5
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Selection pressure
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Something in the environment that affects the chance that individuals with different features will survive and reproduce
