Processes of Evolution - population change due to selection Flashcards

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what are selection pressures?

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factors that determine which characteristics are favourable → selection pressures can be biotic or abiotic

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What is natural selection?

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The process of organisms adapt and change to their environment → organisms with traits better suited for environment will survive therefore pass on their alleles

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What is sexual selection

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Natural selection arising through preference by one sex for certain characteristics in individuals of the other sex

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