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When a mutation occurs in the replication process, it changes certain features, like maybe better eyesight, and maybe bigger eyes, or bigger claws, and the meaning of evolution is when something changes into a better form.

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What is the difference between the meanings of the terms evolution and natural selection?

Evolution is the change in allele frequency over time in a population of organisms. Change over time and a fact. Natural selection is the nonrandom survival and reproductive success of randomly varying organisms and explains much about the fact of evolution.


What is the role of the natural selection in evolution and what role does it play in environmental science?

Natural selection is the changing of organisms gradually over time. Natural selection and evolution are parts of environmental science due to them being the studies of organisms.


What is the the role of natural selection in evolution and what roles does it play in environmental science?

Natural selection is the changing of organisms gradually over time. Natural selection and evolution are parts of environmental science due to them being the studies of organisms.


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.


Why are mutations importasnt to the modern theory of evolution?

Without beneficial mutations leading to beneficial variation there would be no natural selection on the individual organism, outside of sexual recombination, which would mean no change in allele frequency over time leading to no evolution. Fortunately, that is never the case in nature and mutations lead to variation and adaptive change in the organisms under selection pressure.


Organisms stay the same due to evolution natural selection and artificial selection. true or false?

False. Organisms change over time due to evolution, which is driven by natural selection (survival of the fittest) and artificial selection (human intervention). This process leads to the adaptation and diversification of species.


What is prerequisite for evolution?

That organisms vary, by sexual recombination or mutation. That some organisms will be better at survival and reproduction so that their alleles are passed on to progeny and these causes a change in frequency of these alleles over time which is the definition of evolution.


Charles Darwin suggested that the evolution of living organisms is guided by?

Natural Selection


What does Darwin theory of evolution explain?

The theory of evolution by natural selection. It explains evolution; the change in allele frequency over time in a population of organisms. Why organisms change over time in differing environments.


Do evolution stop?

No. Evolution is the change in allele frequency over time in a population of organisms. This may be the result of stabilizing selection, but is still evolution.


What concept of evolution explains why organisms are constructed to meet the demands of their environment?

Natural selection explains adaptive change in the immediate environment.


Compare and contrast natural selection and evolution?

Natural selection is the most powerful driver of evolution and it is the only mechanism of evolution ( genetic drift and gene flow are two other mechanisms ) that leads to adaptive change. Natural selection is the nonrandom survival and reproductive success of of randomly varying organisms. Evolution is the change in allele frequency over time in a population of organisms.