Natural Selection Flashcards
1
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What is natural selection
A
Process of certain inherited traits influence ease or difficulty of living in an enviorment genetically influencing populations over time
2
Q
First published book on evolution
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The origin of species by natural selection
3
Q
What are Phenotypes?
A
Physical expression or charactersitcs of that ‘trait’ eg. Hair, body size, metabolisms, reflexes
4
Q
When Phenotypes can be passed on to offspring, we call them
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Heritable
5
Q
What is a genotype?
A
Set of genes in our DNA which is responsible for a particular trait
