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Natural selection causes changes in populations of organisms not individual organisms because?
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differential reproductive success caused by genetic variation is necessary for the process of natural selection.
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Which does natural selection affect populations or individuals?
Populations evolve, but individuals are selected. Natural selection affects individual organisms.
What is being selected in natural selection?
The individual, or the genes of the individual. All organisms are variants in phenotype and behavior. So, natural selection is the immediate environment these organisms are in and those that survive and reproduce better in this environment leave more descendants which carry the genes that promoted that survival and reproduction advantage. Then those genes are more represented in the populations gene pool and this is evolution.
What process did Darwin's book suggest that organisms evolve through?
These three ideas seem to run together, so it's important that you are able to distinguish among them. The theory that organisms change over time is evolution. The mechanism by which organisms evolve is natural selection. Survival of the fittest explains how natural selection works.Answer = Natural SelectionThe process of natural selection, of course.
What characteristic witin populations causes natural selection to occur?
The characteristic within the population that causes natural selection to occur is that individuals within a given population are not all identical because they vary. The other characteristic that causes natural selection to occur is that some variants are better than the others.
Which of the following is the most powerful evolutionary force in large populations over time?
Only natural selection could be the answer here as natural selection is the main driver of adaptive change leading to evolutionary change and speciation in large populations.
Which does natural selection affect populations or individuals?
Populations evolve, but individuals are selected. Natural selection affects individual organisms.
How do populations benefit from individual adaptations?
because of natural selection
What is natural selection and how does natural selection evolution?
A simplified explanation. Natural selection is the nonrandom survival and reproductive success of randomly varying organisms who by this reproductive success change the allele frequency over time in populations of organisms, which is evolution.
What is being selected in natural selection?
The individual, or the genes of the individual. All organisms are variants in phenotype and behavior. So, natural selection is the immediate environment these organisms are in and those that survive and reproduce better in this environment leave more descendants which carry the genes that promoted that survival and reproduction advantage. Then those genes are more represented in the populations gene pool and this is evolution.
Does the population or organism go through natural selection?
No, populations of organisms evolve, individuals are naturally selected.
What process did Darwin's book suggest that organisms evolve through?
These three ideas seem to run together, so it's important that you are able to distinguish among them. The theory that organisms change over time is evolution. The mechanism by which organisms evolve is natural selection. Survival of the fittest explains how natural selection works.Answer = Natural SelectionThe process of natural selection, of course.
It makes them evolve into a way that is adequit for their environment?
Natural selection and it's ability to engender adaptive change in populations of organisms.
What does natural selection only act on?
It acts on populations.
Why do populations of asexually reproduced organisms show little variation?
There is no natural selection and therefore no evolutionary need for a difference between genders.
What is the only thing that natural selection can act on?
The phenotype or genome of the individual organism. Remember, individuals are selected, populations evolve.
What does natural selection eliminate from populations?
Natural selection is a term that, if you stated it fully, would say something like "The fittest individuals are naturally selected for reproduction." Unfit organisms do not survive to reproduce and pass on their genes.
Describe darwin's theory of natural selection as the mechanism of evolution?
Short and sweet description. Natural selection is the nonrandom survival and reproductive success of randomly varying organisms. Variation. Struggle for existence. Selection. Heritability of traits. Adaptation of populations to environment. Leading to allele frequency change in populations over time; evolution.
