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What is the process by which favorable traits that are heritable become more common in successive generations of a population of reproducing organisms, and unfavorable traits that are heritable become less common.
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Natural Selection
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Favorable traits..
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Natural selection acts on what?
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The phenotype; animals with favorable phenotypes are more likely to survive and reproduce than
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If the phenotypes have a genetic basis, then the genotype associated with the favorable phenotype will do what?
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It will increase in frequency in the next generation.
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What results in adaptations that specialize organisms for particular ecological niches?
or.. possibly result in the emerge of new species? |
Natural Selection
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