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Natural selection occurs when a certain environment favors a particular characteristic or trait over another. With this being said, when a species becomes extinct, this means that that species' particular set of characteristics or traits was not the most favorable for them to survive in that certain environment.

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Explain how natural selection is at work when a species becomes extinct?

According to science, natural selection chooses the best features for the best survival. When those processes do not occur for some reason, the species does not survive.


How natural selection help few species to survive and how few others got extinct?

how natural selection help some species to survive and few got extinct


Why do most species in the world go extinct?

Notincluding human intervention. Natural selection.


What influence did speciation have on Darwin's development of Natural Selection?

The influence of providing an explanatory mechanism for what was obvious to Darwin; species arose and species went extinct.


When no living member in your species exist the species?

when there are no living members of a species the species is said to be "extinct".


Natural selection allows a species to change in response to its environment. What is the process by which a species becomes better suited to its environment called?

Adaptation (I'm studying the same thing ;)


According to the theory of natural selection a species that lacks the variations necessary to adapt to a changing environment will most likely do what?

Go extinct.


When a species permanently disappears the species is said to be what?

It becomes extinct.


What are the two major reasons why a species becomes extinct?

1) a natural catastrophe (eg an asteroid impact) 2) evolutionary changes.


What is the process by which a species becomes better suited to its environment called?

Sometimes this is called natural selection.


How does natural selection help few species to survive?

Natural selection helps a few species survive by favoring those with advantageous traits that increase their likelihood of survival and reproduction in their environment. Over time, these advantageous traits are passed down to future generations, leading to the continuation of those species while others may become extinct.


When a new species arises from natural selection this is called?

When a new species arises from natural selection, it is called speciation. This process occurs when a population becomes reproductively isolated from another population, leading to the formation of distinct species over time.