Natural selection

• What is natural selection?

  In simple terms its survival of the fittest in more complex terms it’s a process that results in the adaptation of an organism to its and environment by means of selectively reproducing changes in its genotype or genetic constitution.
• What are the 4 requirments of natural selection?

  1. Overproduction of offspring: lots of offspring with limited resources leads to competition
  2. Variation
  3. Adaptation: Fitness,The best adaptions will become more common over time as the allow the organism to survive better.
  4. Descent with modification: A change in gene frequency overtime
• What does natural selection lead to?

  populations with new phenotypes adapted to new situations/enviornments