Varaiton and evolution

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    • what is variation
      each individual has different phenotypes
    • what is mutation
      change in DNA code
    • what factors contribute to variation
      environment
      genes an individual inherits
    • what does survival of the fittest mean
      individuals with the most favourable characterises are most likely to survive
    • what is evolution
      the process by which inhabited cover to which states all the population change over time due to natural selection
    • who proposed the theory of evolution
      charles darwin
    • what is speciation
      the evolutionary process by which population evolved to become dinstict species
    • what is occasionally harmful and very advantageous
      mutations