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9.6 Activity 2
Know the definition and spelling of the word
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are two different things that influenced Darwin’s work? | The work of farmers and breeders and artificial selection. |
| What is heritability? | The ability of a trait to be inherited, or passed down from one generation to the next |
| What is natural selection? | A process which individuals that have inherited beneficial adaptations to produce more offspring on average than do other individuals |
| What is the selective agent in natural selection? | The environment |
| What is descent with modification? | The spread of an adaptation throughout new generations |
| What does the term fitness mean? | A measure of the ability to survive and produce more offspring relative to other members of the population in a given environment. |