Describe one measure of evolutionary fitness

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The central concept of natural selection is the evolutionary fitness of an organism.Fitness is measured by an organism's ability to survive and reproduce, which determines the size of its genetic contribution to the next generation.However, fitness is not the same as the total number of offspring: instead fitness is indicated by the proportion of subsequent generations that carry an organism's genes.For example, if an organism could survive well and reproduce rapidly, but its offspring were all too small and weak to survive, this organism would make little genetic contribution to future generations and would thus have low fitness.

san4es73 [151]3 years ago

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The answer is letter A.

In the evolutionary sense fitness refers to the measure of reproductive success of an individual or of organisms in general. Those organisms that leave the largest number of mature offspring are the fittest. Fitness can be achieved through survival or mortality selection, mating success or sexual selection, and family size or fecundity selection. Fitness is critical for a species’ survival and is a major adaptation that all organisms do through a long period of time.

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