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What are the three ways natural selection can affect the distribution of phenotype?
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What is the unit of natural selection?
This is a bone of contention among some biologists, Some say that the individual organism is the smallest unit upon which natural selection directly acts and some say it is the gene. I would check your textbook to see which way this wind blows, but most texts I have seen, or used, generally, say that the individual organism, or the individuals organism's phenotype is that which natural selection acts directly on. Of course, texts are conservative in their outlook. Something funny here about attribution of answer, so I write this to get this answer under my user name.
What are the 3 ways natural selection can affect a population?
Natural selection changes the genetic makeup of a population by favoring some genotypes over others. It does so through the differential reproduction of those genotypes. Put simply, if I possess a variant of a trait (and the genotype underlying it) which allows me to leave behind more adult offspring than those with different variants of that trait, then my variant will become more common in the population than the others. The result is a change in the frequency of the gene variants: mine increases in frequency at the expense of the others. This change in the frequency of gene variants (known as alleles) over time in a population is the basic definition of evolution itself.
How does selection affect natural selection?
Organisms are affected by Natural Selection because Inherited characteristics affected the likelihood of an organism's survival and reproduction.
Why does natural selection only work on phenotypes?
Natural selection is based on the environment and on the traits of organisms. Organisms with more suitable traits are more likely to survive until reproductive age, while organisms with less suitable traits are more likely to die before they can reproduce. Most of these traits are genetic traits. The phenotype is the set of all genetic traits. Natural selection is not determined by genotypes, because genotypes are merely an organism's genetic makeup. Only the dominant or somewhat dominant alleles in the genotype will also appear in the phenotype. However, genotypes still contribute to natural selection indirectly in that two alleles in two parents' genotypes which had not appeared in their phenotypes could be inherited such that they are in the phenotype of the offspring.
Which does natural Which does natural selection affect?
natural selection is basiclly only the strong survive which means it effects the weak by killing them but bernifits the strong
How does natural selection affect survival?
Natural selection is the process which determines the shark's evolution. It is humankind that is threatening the sharks' survival.
Which does natural selection affect populations or individuals?
Populations evolve, but individuals are selected. Natural selection affects individual organisms.
What best describes a factors that affect a phenotype?
The genotype and the environment both affect a phenotype.
What other theories are there except for natural selection?
Evolution by natural selection is currently the only viable theory explaining the diversity of life. However, the mechanism of natural selection is not the only mechanism to affect evolution. There are phenomena such as genetic drift, biased gene conversion, intragenomic conflict, and so on, that aren't exactly the same as natural selection (although they are all intertwined and all affect one another), but do affect the direction of evolution.
Explain how stabilizing selection would affect a graph of the distribution of phenotypes for a trait?
Stabilizing selection would result in a graph showing a peak at the intermediate phenotype, with fewer individuals at the extreme phenotypes. This is because individuals with intermediate phenotypes are favored, leading to the reduction of extreme phenotypes in the population over time.
How does Evolutionary Trends affect Natural Selection?
Adaptation for stronger shells.
What happens to unnecessary traits during the process of natural selection?
How does natural selection affect undesirable traits?
