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What is the difference between sexual and natural selection?
Madyson Hartmann
Natural selection is survival of the fittest, while sexual selection is a preference for a given trait made by the limiting sex. It is strangely, but usually in opposition to natural selection (E.G., male peacock's tail feathers that garner attention from predators and prevent the peacock from fleeing well).
Madge Ledner
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∙ 12y agoSexual selection is a sub-set of natural selection.
The main difference is that most "natural selection" is driven by death, sexual selection is driven by rejection.
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What are four forces that can change the frequency of genes in a population?
- natural selection - sexual selection - genetic drift - immigration/emagration
What kind of selection can result in speciation?
Natural selection seems to be the only selection that can drive speciation with powerful adaptive change. Sexual selection seems to stay within the species and both gene flow and genetic drift do not seem to drive speciation very well.
What causes the allele frequencies to changes?
1. Mutation 2. Migration (Gene Flow): both immigration and emigration. 3. Genetic Drift 4. Sexual Selection (Non-random mating) 5. Natural Selection: those most fit survive to pass on their genes to the next generation.
Why is variation important for natural selection and what are the main sources of this variation?
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.
What does natural selection act upon?
Natural Selection is driven by random mutations and sexual reproduction. Organisms produce more offspring than can survive. These offspring compete for resources for food and water and who can aviod stuff such as predators and disease. Sexual Reproduction allows a population to have variation. If all of a population was the same, then it could easily die out if it had a adaptation that decreased its chance of survival. With sexual reproduction, all of a population has some sort of variation. Random Mutations allow organisms to gain new adaptions to help them survive in their environment. Together, Random mutations and sexual reproduction allow organisms that can survive in their environment survive and pass on their genes to their offspring.
Explain the difference between artificial and natural selection?
Artificial selection is anthropogenic -- humans interfere with nature to determine what traits get passed on, whereas natural selection is when through sexual reproduction the traits passed on are determined by survival of the fittest.
What kind of selections occurs in many birds when males that build strong nests help care for young are chosen by females as mates?
This is called, sexual selection.
How does nonrandom mating affect evolution?
Non-random mating is otherwise known as sexual selection. Some see this as distinct from natural selection, but I think that sexual selection is merely a form of, or perhaps more a complication of natural selection. Selection, natural or sexual, is the effect that "guides" evolution, that allows evolution to produce populations suited to their environment.
What are 4 factor Darwin's used for his theory of evolution?
Artificial Selection, Sexual Selection and Natural Selection.
How has God made a peacock special?
Natural Selection and Sexual Selection has made a peacock 'special'.
Can you have evolution without natural selection?
Of course you can. Google genetic drift and gene flow for two evolutionary drivers ( weak drivers ) that have nothing to do with natural selection. Then there is that subsection of natural selection called sexual selection.
Why is phenotype variation necessary for natural selection and sexual selection?
It is necessary to create a full and varied species.
What is a beneficial feature that evolved by means of natural selection?
Your brain is one of the most important human features evolved by natural selection. ( perhaps sexual selection also had something to do with it )
What are the influences of evolution?
genetic drift, gene flow, mutation, natural selection and nonrandom mating ( sexual selection ).
What are four forces that can change the frequency of genes in a population?
- natural selection - sexual selection - genetic drift - immigration/emagration
How does sexual natural selection affected the appearance of male guppies?
Because of the environment they live in.
Is natural selection a source of variation within species?
No, mutation and sexual recombination are the sources of variation and natural selection selects from those variations presented to it against the immediate environment.
