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Yes, the rate of development can be influenced by natural selection. Traits that affect an organism's development can impact its survival and reproduction, thereby subjecting them to selection pressures that may favor certain rates of development over others. Over multiple generations, individuals with beneficial rates of development may be more likely to pass on their genes, leading to evolutionary changes in development rates within a population.
Natural selection can only work on genetic variation that already exists. So mutation comes first, then natural selection.
Evolution, of course. Evolution can happen without natural selection in some cases; drift, flow. Generally though, natural selection causes evolution and then, by definition, would come first.
Indirectly, yes it does. But it can only act on genotypes through their phenotypes.
No, all life evolves. Bacteria evolve, viruses evolve, protists evolve, plants evolve, fungi evolve and animals evolve. Evolution is driven by Natural Selection. So, no. The evolution of all life on Earth is driven by Natural Selection: all bacteria, plants, animals, mammals, fish, insects, biochemical pathways, behaviours et cetera evolve by Natural Selection.
Because the offspring of an organism with a desirable inherited trait is more likely to survive than the offspring of an organism with a desirable acquired trait (because the offspring of an organism with a desirable acquired trait will not have its parent's desirable trait).
Yes, the rate of development can be influenced by natural selection. Traits that affect an organism's development can impact its survival and reproduction, thereby subjecting them to selection pressures that may favor certain rates of development over others. Over multiple generations, individuals with beneficial rates of development may be more likely to pass on their genes, leading to evolutionary changes in development rates within a population.
It can only explain certain situations. And it's just one of the aspects of natural selection.
Natural selection can only work on genetic variation that already exists. So mutation comes first, then natural selection.
natural selection is basiclly only the strong survive which means it effects the weak by killing them but bernifits the strong
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.
Natural selection requires that individuals in a population are
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.
It acts on populations.
Natural selection is when contemporary species rose from ancestors that survived due to their physical characteristics in their habitats. A well-known example is the Galapagos Islands and how the animals on the islands adapted to their environments. Darwin convinced the biology world that diversity in organisms came from evolution (descent without modification). Artificial selection is when humans intentionally breed animals for certain traits. Unlike natural selection, where only the fittest survive, artificial selection is for human's likings. Many crops that are grown are part of artificial selection.
Yes it does. Without variance in the organisms genome, that gives variance to the phenotype, there would be nothing for natural selection to select from.
Nature selects against only harmful traits