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Why are mutations and conjugation important for natural selection in prokaryotes?
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Becauase they need to adapt to the new environment to enter the bodies
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True or false Mutations can increase the variations in a species 'traits?
Mutations are important for evolution because they provide the variability whereupon natural selection acts.true last answered by zaporia
Natural selection is due to?
beneficial mutations
Why are mutations are important for evolution?
Mutations serve up the variations in organisms to natural selection. The reproductively successful variations pass on these successful traits to progeny and allele frequencies change because of this and this is evolution.
Which mutations are NOT subject to natural selection - lethal physiological neutral or morphological?
Neutral mutations confer no benefits or handicaps and are therefore not affected by natural selection.
What are the mechanisms of evolution?
There are several mechanisms for evolution. The first (and most important) being natural selection, which plays off random mutations. Genetic drift is also another important aspect of evolution. EDIT: It depends on what you mean by "mechanism." Mutations are thought to be the mechanism that causes the change in DNA, then natural selection and Gentic drift take over. Unfortunately, mutations do not hold up and evolution is ultimately left without a mechanism. This article on mutations gives an indepth explanation http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/wow/are-mutations-the-engine STRAIT FROM THE BIOLOGY BOOK :)
How does slow change over time occur genetically?
Through mutations in DNA, and natural selection of advantageous mutations.
What are the three things biodiversity emerges from?
extinction, natural selection, and mutations
What are the pressures of natural selection?
Everything from available food to climate will cause the changes we see in natural selection. Random mutations occur constantly and when those mutations are beneficial for life, the genetic code is more likely to be passed on to future generations.
Evaluate the significance of mutations and repair of mutations to the evolution of sexual reproduction?
evaluate the significance of mutations and repairof mutations to the evolution of sexual reproduction
How does natural selection help evolution?
Mutations are random... they can be good, bad, or neutral.Natural selection makes evolution a non-random process by making it more likely that organisms with bad mutations will die without mating, while those with good mutations will live on to pass the gene to the next generation making it more fit.
How does natural selection affect the frequency of mutatons?
Natural selection works on mutations that are already in place. The environmental changes will select for certain mutations if the selective pressure is supplied long enough for several generations of offspring to carry a higher percentage of the mutation.
Mutations are important for evolution because they .?
Mutations are very important for evolution today because they usually lead to the genetic changes in a given gene pool. They also allow the species to change with the environment.
