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When an organism produces too many offspring to increase the chance of survival for the species. Put it this way: Mother turtles produce many offspring (baby turtles) because most will get eaten or will not survive.
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What is the relationship between overproduction of offspring and natural selection?
Overproduction of offspring means overproduction of variants that can not all live on the resources in their immediate environment. Thus those organisms who can survive to be reproductively successful in a limited resource environment are naturally selected for and pass these traits on to their offspring.
What is the explanation for the four steps of natural selection?
overproduction: to many offspring and 3 others
What is the word for somthing that occurs when there are more offspring produced than resources available to sustain them?
the answer is overproduction
The process through which species produce many more offspring than can possibly survive?
Overproduction
What best describes the process of plants and animals producing more offspring than are able to survive?
Charls Darwins' theory of "struggle for existance and survival of the fittest"
What is overproduction?
Overproduction is a driving force in natural selection, as it can lead to adaptation and variations in a species. Darwin argued that all species overproduce, since they have more offspring than can realistically reach reproductive age, based on the resources available. -Google More offspring are produced than can survive. -gradpoint/novanet
What are the various possible consequences of the overproduction of offspring?
The overproduction of offspring causes competition for limited resources such as food, water and space. Some individuals are better suited for the environmental conditions and they are more likely to survive and reproduce. Those who are less adapted will not survive or they may migrate to another area. This is known as natural selection.The overproduction of offspring can also increase the chances of diseases spreading in a population. The waste products of the population may also reach dangerous toxic levels. If the number of individuals exceed carrying then the population will crash.
What is the effect of differntial reproduction over time?
Overproduction of offspring and more changes like adaptation for survival.
What is the theory of overproduction?
Overproduction is the ability of a species to produce far more offspring than can possibly survive. This leads to a 'struggle for survival'. Individuals with the most useful features (the best adaptations) also known as "survival of the fittest" will survive and leave more offspring than other individuals. Their offspring will inherit the useful variations and pass them on in their turn. This is the process of natural selection.
Why is overproduction necessary for evolution?
If all offspring could be supported comfortably by the available resources, then there would be less selection on fitness. Selection works, in part, because the limitations on available resources make it so that some offspring will be able to obtain more for themselves, and therefore produce more offspring themselves, than other variants.Of course the limitation on resources isn't the only factor in selection. Predation and disease also feature importantly. And even if no overproduction of offspring exists in the population, those will still tend to reduce reproductive fitness in some variants.
What is the 4 main points of natural selection?
natural selection (4 tenants) -genetic variation -overproduction of offspring -struggle for existence (competition) -differential survival and reproduction
How does overproduction of offspring create a struggle for survival?
overproduction actually helps the survival but if mjost of the eggs hatch but the more animals would mean more competetion for food and if their isn't enough food tehn the food source will become extinct and the other species that depend on that food source will die out also
