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What is the importance of meiosis in heredity and natural selection?
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∙ 13y ago
this is where the genes are mixed up, and it allows genes to be exchanged across chromosomes and randomizes the assortment of chromosomes to the offspring.
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∙ 11y agoIt allows two gametes to form allowing two genetic donors (mother and father) to contribute to the offsprings.
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Adaptation which allows for natural selection is called?
Adaptation does not allow for natural selection: natural selection causes adaptation.
How does genetic variation support Natural Selection?
Genetic variation in itself does not 'support' natural selection: it is what natural selection acts upon.
What is the selective agent in natural selection?
They are the selective agent in natural selection ;)
Is natural selection a process or a result of a process?
Natural selection is only the result of changing environments, mutation and the variation resulting therein. Natural selection is the process of adaptive change and the main mechanism of evolution that leads to speciation. Natural selection is a process as mutation and variation are grist to the mill of natural selection.
Is natural selection responsible for inherited traits?
no, inherited traits are responsible for natural selection
What role do meiosis play in process of natural selection?
Meiosis plays an important role in the process of natural selection, as it allows DNA to replicate.
How is meiosis benificial to the evolution of a species by natural selection?
Meiosis produces new varieties .
How is meiosis beneficial to the evolution of a species by natural selection?
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What conditions contribute to evolution?
Variability, heredity, and natural selection are 3 main things that contribute to evolution.
Evolution by natural selection involves what three factors?
there is variation in traits , differential reproduction and last is heredity
Why are not Americans affected with sickle cell anaemia?
natural selection and heredity Americans are affected with sickle cell anaemia which mostly affects black people.
What is the name for the process in which the organisms best adapted to their environment survive?
Its NaTuRaL sElEcTiOn if you didn't know.
What are the concepts of heredity?
The 'concepts of heredity' are not a description of inheritable traits (such as eye colour, lactose tolerance, the ability to roll your tongue, or whether you have attached/unattached earlobes) but of the mechanisms themselves (ie- genetics). The concepts of heredity include descriptions of the mechanisms of heredity (e.g. genetics), variability (and mutations) between generations and the role of genetic drift and natural selection (or selective breeding) in evolution (micro- and macro-) of a species.
What process in which organisims with traits well suited to an environment are more likely to survive and to produce offspring is?
natural selection
Adaptation which allows for natural selection is called?
Adaptation does not allow for natural selection: natural selection causes adaptation.
What is the difference between heredity and mutation?
Heredity is how information is based from one generation to the next; encoded in the DNA molecule. A mutation is a mistake that is made in the DNA. Most mutations have no affect, some are harmful, and a small number confer an advantage. Natural Selection works to eliminate the harmful and enhance the beneficial.
What has caused the theory of natural selection to change over time?
Better evidence, especially from genetics. When Charles Darwin first proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection his mechanism of heredity was dead wrong. He posited a blending type of heredity. When Gregor Mendel's work was rediscovered in about 1900 particulate inheritance was brought to the forefront of evolutionary thinking and the synthesis of the 1930's and '40's cooperated this thinking with Darwinian though to give us modern evolutionary theory.
