Definition of natural selection

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natural selection

The term 'natural selection' as it applies to the area of basic science can be defined as 'process by which, in a given environment, individuals having characteristics that aid survival will produce more offspring, so the proportion of individuals having such characteristics will increase with each succeeding generation. The two mechanisms of natural selection include gradualism - slow genetic modification (evolution) of a population over long periods of time, and punctuated equilibrium - relatively rapid evolution at a speciation event'.

The term 'natural selection' as it applies to the area of carbon dioxide can be defined as ' The process of survival of the fittest by which organisms that adapt to their environment survive while those that do not adapt disappear'.


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