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biodiversity
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| natural selection | the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring. The theory of its action was first fully expounded by Charles Darwin and is now believed to be the main process that brings about evolution. |
| artificial election | Artificial selection is the intentional reproduction of individuals in a population that have desirable traits. In organisms that reproduce sexually, two adults that possess a desired trait — such as two parent plants that are tall — are bred together. |
| evolution | the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth |
| 4 principles of natural selection | natural selection is the mechanism by which, if given time a population could be modified to produce new species. There are four principles: variation, heritability, overproduction, and reproductive advantage. |
| fitness | the condition of being physically fit and healthy. |
| adaptation | the action or process of adapting or being adapted |