Variation naturally occurs in populations as new traits arise from random mutations. However, through natural selection only those traits that are beneficial to the organism are passed on to the next generation. Any harmful mutations are naturally weeded out.
Favorable variations are selected.
Genetic variation in itself does not 'support' natural selection: it is what natural selection acts upon.
Genetic variation. If there were no variation in the genes/phenotype then natural selection would have nothing to select from.
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.
What population? Perhaps you mean if there were no variation for natural selection to select from.
Without variation natural selection would have nothing to select from that would confer survivability and reproductive success. on the organisms being selected against the organisms conspecifics and the immediate environment. Mutation and sexual recombination provide the main sources of this variation that is needed to make selection work. Mutation is the variation presented that causes the real adaptive change that can lead to speciation.
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No. Natural selection requires reproductive variation to work on. Besides reproductive variation and natural selection, there are various forces, biochemical as well as population dynamical, that affect the allelic composition of a population.
Genetic variation in itself does not 'support' natural selection: it is what natural selection acts upon.
No, natural selection works on that genetic variation presented to it.
Natural selection.
no there is no genetic variation for natural selection to act upon
Genetic variation. If there were no variation in the genes/phenotype then natural selection would have nothing to select from.
Natural variation, natural selection, artificial selection, genetic engineering, etc.
Natural selection doesn't reduce variation. Variation is regulated by the rate of mutation.Natural selection reduces the chance of bad variation from being passed on and increases the chances for good variation to be passed on.
No, there is no genetic variation upon which natural selection can operate.
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.