No. Just like getting wet is the effect sorted by rain hitting the ground, natural selection is the effect that happens when variant organisms compete for resources. It's not a thing in itself; it's a term for describing how things turn out when certain conditions occur.
Its NaTuRaL sElEcTiOn if you didn't know.
Natural selection is "blind" so to speak, it has no goal or end game. Natural selection works generation by generation. Whichever members of a group have the best set of traits to produce and raise fertile offspring will pass those traits on. What is best set of traits may change from generation to generation and so will the species. A good example are the Galapagos finches- see http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/07/060714-evolution.html
Adaptation does not allow for natural selection: natural selection causes adaptation.
The idea that evolution is a directed process with a predetermined goal or purpose is not part of Darwin's theory of natural selection. Instead, Darwin proposed that evolution occurs through random variation and selection based on the fitness of individuals in a given environment.
The prefix of natural selection is "natural" and the suffix is "-tion".
Genetic variation in itself does not 'support' natural selection: it is what natural selection acts upon.
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Natural selection is what causes adaptation.
No, natural selection is the mechanism that drivesevolution.