Processes of Evolution - population change due to selection Flashcards
1
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what are selection pressures?
A
factors that determine which characteristics are favourable → selection pressures can be biotic or abiotic
2
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What is natural selection?
A
The process of organisms adapt and change to their environment → organisms with traits better suited for environment will survive therefore pass on their alleles
3
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What is sexual selection
A
Natural selection arising through preference by one sex for certain characteristics in individuals of the other sex
