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Savatey [412]
3 years ago
8

Consider the term fitness as used in biology. How does this term relate to natural selection?

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1 answer:
Eduardwww [97]3 years ago
7 0
Fitness is a measure of reproduction success (how many offspring an organism leaves in the next generation, relative to others in the group). Natural selection can act on traits determined by alternative alleles of a single gene, or on polygenic traits( traits determined by many genes).

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