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Variations within populations is what natural selection is " looking " for. That one variant of a population is somewhat better able to survive and reproduce than other variants against the backdrop of the immediate environment is natural selection.
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Crossing-over increases the genetic variation within a population, which is required for natural selection to act upon.
The answer below is partly right, but natural selection actually does not act on an individual. As stated below, individuals within a population of a given species are selected based on physical trains which benefit, but not for the survival of the animal itself. It is important to note that in Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection, environmental change does not create new alleles but rather select from the gene pool of a population that has the allele which would benifit in a given condition. Thus, natural selection act on a population and its gene pool rather than the individuals. Yes. According to Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection, individuals within a population of a given species are "selected" based on physical traits which benefit the survival of the animal. However, they are only "selected" thanks to the individuals that die, because they are not physically suited for survival as well as the others. Natural selection acts directly only on those to die, because it is technically the only physical "act" or determining factor that demonstrates Darwin's theory. All the rest simply has to do with the animals left over, which simply breed as usual inevitably creating better and better animals, while natural selection picks off all those that are not quite good enough.
The natural production of variation within an animal species and the survival (and by implication breeding) of the fittest variants.
Variations within populations is what natural selection is " looking " for. That one variant of a population is somewhat better able to survive and reproduce than other variants against the backdrop of the immediate environment is natural selection.
Genetic variation. If there were no variation in the genes/phenotype then natural selection would have nothing to select from.
The characteristic within the population that causes natural selection to occur is that individuals within a given population are not all identical because they vary. The other characteristic that causes natural selection to occur is that some variants are better than the others.
genetic variation
Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection related to the origin of structural and physiological adaptations because : Natural selection is when a certain organism adapts to its environment changes . For example , The Box Jellyfish has been existing befor the Dinasours which eventually helps us understand that it adapted to the changes in its environment in order for it to not extinct . It might have become the predator of its habitat or used camouflage to survive .
Natural selection is driven by differences in reproductive success between variants within the same population.
Variations within a population
Genetic Variation is a measure of the genetic differences there are within populations or species. For example, a population with many different alleles at a locus may be said to have a lot of genetic variation at that locus. Genetic variation is essential for natural selection to operate since natural selection can only increase or decrease frequency of alleles already in the population
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No, mutation and sexual recombination are the sources of variation and natural selection selects from those variations presented to it against the immediate environment.
Crossing-over increases the genetic variation within a population, which is required for natural selection to act upon.
Selective breeding is the process whereby one controls the breeding patterns of biological entities to yield specific traits. This can also mean forcing breeding to boost recessive traits in a population.Natural selection, on the other hand, results only in populations that express traits that allow for survival and further reproduction within a given environment (selection pressure).