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Sunny_sXe [5.5K]
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In your own words, explain how adaptive traits spread

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Neko [114]3 years ago
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Answer:

Explanation:

Natural selection only acts on the population's heritable traits: selecting for beneficial alleles and thus increasing their frequency in the population, while selecting against deleterious alleles and thereby decreasing their frequency—a process known as adaptive evolution.

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