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Some individual organisms are better equipped to live and reproduce in their environment than others. If what makes them better equipped is heritable, their offspring will be more numerous and will tend to inherit the same traits or qualities themselves. The opposite will happen to those poorly equipped. They will have fewer or no offspring, and their negative traits will tend to disappear from the population as time goes on. These two tendencies are called positive (natural) selection and negative (natural) selection respectively. Natural selection is always relative to the environment. What is advantageous in one environment may not be so in another, and what is disadvantageous (deleterious) in one environment may not be so in another.
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What is the selective agent in natural selection?
They are the selective agent in natural selection ;)
What concept of evolution explains why organisms are constructed to meet the demands of their environment?
Natural selection explains adaptive change in the immediate environment.
Natural selection allows a species to change in response to its environment. What is the process by which a species becomes better suited to its environment called?
Adaptation (I'm studying the same thing ;)
Which type of natural selection in which the mean characteristics of a population are preserved?
This type of natural selection is called stabilizing selection because the mean traits of the population are being selected for against the immediate environment.
What is the process by which individuals that are better adapted to their environment survive and reproduce more successfully?
Natural Selection is a process which individuals are better adapted to their enviorment are more likely to survive and reproduce. Say there are turtles barely hatching and there are hungry seagul waiting to be fed, the fastest ones will make it to the water safely while the slow ones are being eaten. so eventually all the turtles in the sea will become faster to get away from predators. hopefully that answered your question.
What is the selective agent in natural selection?
They are the selective agent in natural selection ;)
What is the name for the process in which the organisms best adapted to their environment survive?
Its NaTuRaL sElEcTiOn if you didn't know.
The process by which individuals that are better adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce is called?
natural selection
How does environment select organisms?
natural selection
Does natural selection cause changes in the environment?
No, natural selection is the environment! The variant organism is selected against the immediate environment where it survives and reproduces better than it's conspecifics.
Why does the environment act on natural selection?
I know of no government that acts, in any direct or significant way, on natural selection.
What is the degree of adaptation to a specific environment?
Natural Selection.
What concept of evolution explains why organisms are constructed to meet the demands of their environment?
Natural selection explains adaptive change in the immediate environment.
How environmental factors contribute to evolution by natural selection.?
Environmental factors ARE evolution by natural selection. The immediate environment is the selector of the organisms that are differentially successful against the immediate environment.
Why does natural selection not directly affect genes?
Natural selection acts on the way organisms interact with one another and with their environment. The genes of organisms are not usually themselves involved in this interaction: they direct it through intermediaries such as proteins. So natural selection must work through these intermediaries to affect genes.
What is the name for the process where the organism best adapted to their environment to survive?
The process is called natural selection, where organisms that are best adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce, passing on their advantageous traits to the next generation.
Natural selection allows a species to change in response to its environment. What is the process by which a species becomes better suited to its environment called?
Adaptation (I'm studying the same thing ;)
