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Superbugs that develop resistance to antibiotics through genetic mutations provide a clear example of natural selection in action. When exposed to antibiotics, the individuals with mutations that confer resistance are more likely to survive and reproduce, passing on their resistant genes to the next generation. Over time, this can lead to a population of bacteria that is predominantly resistant to antibiotics.

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What statement is not an example of use of natural resources?

"Relying on renewable energy sources can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions." This statement is not an example of the use of natural resources; instead, it focuses on the environmental impact of utilizing renewable energy sources.


How are plants made resistant to pests?

The different methods of plant breeding for disease resistance includes seed selection, pedigree selection,recurrent selection,use of natural or artificial induced mutants etc.


How do you use natural selection and evolution in a sentence?

didn't you just do that? or did you mean something else? ... Or........... Over time, the change in a species is called evolution. and. Natural selection helps certain animals in a species survive.


What phrase do you commonly use to describe natural selection?

Differential reproductive success of variant replicators.


Why does free competition and natural selection seem wrong in our present social system?

By the way, this article is not talking about animal breeding issues or human breeding issues, which is not my concern, not this moment. It is about how nature uses its laws to decide intelligent living thing's existence and how human can adapt. It is not the natural law --- "free competition natural selection" is wrong but the specific meaning of it at the present social system development level is not applicable to the changed system, though its general meaning still apply. The usual meaning we use is the specific meaning of it --- competition in a process. That determines who win and who lose in a process. But the general meaning of "free competition, natural selection" includes system selection that determine processes connections and final survival. Natural selection has different forms and different selection levels, higher level selection always are more important and more decisive than the lower level ones. The natural selection we usually talk about is the process selection. It is a lower level selection on strategic and tactic level. This is the specific meaning of natural selection; it is widely used in game theory, social biological and social behavioural studies. But the general meaning of natural selection include all forms and all levels of selection including system selection which is a higher level selection which can override process selection and be the decisive selection that decides final survival. Use value has power and it only can be converted from real value --- natural value which is natural resources. Under natural process over use resources make more power and power is the hard force that always prevails. Competition pressure and natural process will always tend to cause more over use of resources but at this moment of social development, natural mechanisms on this process level cannot function to check human activities and resources are facing exhaustion and environment loading capacity are facing limit. So the natural development of this process is human life chain cut early --- extinction (natural mechanisms only on this process level can check human destruction). This is an example of winning a competition in a process does not mean "win" in a general meaning --- they extinct. The only way to achieve the general meaning of "win" is use rationality to overcome the process disadvantage of instability to win natural selection in system level --- recognise and obey natural law to use rational thinking directed rational efforts to establish rational social system and carry out rational process in it to connect human with higher level of evolution process and continue to survive. Here, the fittest is the rational beings and nature does select them. When social system evolved to high level and the structure and function become highly manmade, we have to overcome process selection pressure to win natural selection on system selection level to connect our present evolution process to a higher level of evolution process and continue to survive into far future. So, though the specific meaning of free competition and natural selection is conditional in our present social system but the general meaning of it is absolute --- it is an absolute law of the nature and can be applied universally and unconditionally. For instances: though the natural tendency driven natural process (such as self-interested opportunists'' short-sighted behaviour) will always have the advantage of natural process favoured thermodynamic stability and behavioural strategy stability, but when social system naturally developed into a critical point that the system no longer can continue under natural process, those process favoured self-interested opportunists if still stick to their old way of unlimited exploiting the nature, they will be selected out by natural selection that select out the old natural social system with its natural process. Nature selects the rational social system on system selection level that overrides process selection. That is why the endless and unlimited exploitation of natural resources will only win those smart self-interested opportunists a short while of easy life by whether choose cooperative strong development or competitive strong growth, they will all be gone with that social system --- they bring that system down along with themselves and the process that favour their behaviour. As a human being, it is actually themselves that selected themselves out of existence but not really nature's doing. A rationalist doesn't mean selfless, he just smarter --- he can rationalise his short term interest so that to get the ultimate interest --- perpetual existence.

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What animal did Charles Darwin use to try Natural selection?

He didn't. If you have to try, it's not natural selection anymore.


How can you use natural selection in a sentence?

Natural selection may ultimately be his downfall.


Could superbugs wipe out the entire human race?

It is highly unlikely that superbugs would wipe out the entire human race. While superbugs are a growing concern due to increasing antibiotic resistance, measures can be taken to control their spread and develop alternative treatments. Public health initiatives, responsible antibiotic use, and ongoing research are key in addressing the threat of superbugs.


What would farmers use to produce vegetables that will grow in a specific climate?

natural selection


Why is it important to control superbugs?

It is important to control superbugs because they are strains of bacteria that are resistant to multiple types of antibiotics, making infections harder to treat. If left unchecked, superbugs can spread rapidly, causing serious illnesses and potentially leading to increased mortality rates. Proper control measures are essential to prevent outbreaks and preserve the effectiveness of existing antibiotics for future use.


How would i use the word random in a sentence?

The random selection has produced a fine example!


What two ideas did Darwin use to explain evolution?

natural selection and common descent


What statement is not an example of use of natural resources?

"Relying on renewable energy sources can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions." This statement is not an example of the use of natural resources; instead, it focuses on the environmental impact of utilizing renewable energy sources.


What process would farmers use to produce vegetables that will grow in a specific climate?

Selective breeding


How are plants made resistant to pests?

The different methods of plant breeding for disease resistance includes seed selection, pedigree selection,recurrent selection,use of natural or artificial induced mutants etc.


How do you use natural selection and evolution in a sentence?

didn't you just do that? or did you mean something else? ... Or........... Over time, the change in a species is called evolution. and. Natural selection helps certain animals in a species survive.


Forensic pathologist use evidence to find what evidence in favor of evolution and natural selection?

direct evidence is the observation as it occurs