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No, populations of organisms evolve, individuals are naturally selected.
Short and sweet description. Natural selection is the nonrandom survival and reproductive success of randomly varying organisms. Variation. Struggle for existence. Selection. Heritability of traits. Adaptation of populations to environment. Leading to allele frequency change in populations over time; evolution.
Heritable traits that confer some survival or reproductive advantage, or natural selection will cull traits that confer the opposite to survival and reproductive advantage. So, the individual organisms, or his genes, are selected and these alleles increase in frequency in populations and evolution takes place.
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Mutation can serve up the raw variation that natural selection selects from, thus alleles are changed over time in populations of organisms; evolution.
Populations evolve, but individuals are selected. Natural selection affects individual organisms.
differential reproductive success caused by genetic variation is necessary for the process of natural selection.
because of natural selection
A simplified explanation. Natural selection is the nonrandom survival and reproductive success of randomly varying organisms who by this reproductive success change the allele frequency over time in populations of organisms, which is evolution.
The individual, or the genes of the individual. All organisms are variants in phenotype and behavior. So, natural selection is the immediate environment these organisms are in and those that survive and reproduce better in this environment leave more descendants which carry the genes that promoted that survival and reproduction advantage. Then those genes are more represented in the populations gene pool and this is evolution.
No, populations of organisms evolve, individuals are naturally selected.
These three ideas seem to run together, so it's important that you are able to distinguish among them. The theory that organisms change over time is evolution. The mechanism by which organisms evolve is natural selection. Survival of the fittest explains how natural selection works.Answer = Natural SelectionThe process of natural selection, of course.
Natural selection and it's ability to engender adaptive change in populations of organisms.
It acts on populations.
There is no natural selection and therefore no evolutionary need for a difference between genders.
The phenotype or genome of the individual organism. Remember, individuals are selected, populations evolve.
Natural selection is a term that, if you stated it fully, would say something like "The fittest individuals are naturally selected for reproduction." Unfit organisms do not survive to reproduce and pass on their genes.