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    Jessica Northey Exam Number 250104 1. Compare directional selection and disruptive selection, Provide an example of each. The two different types of selection differ because instead of the subject only going in one direction it will split off and go two different ways. This would be disruptive selection where there is more than one option to select or two distinct groups. For example, if some flowers and their colors. The main colors may be red, pink and white primarily, say that the more dominate

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    random or influenced and occurs during mitosis or meiosis. It happens when there is a change in a persons genetic code; most mutations are harmless. The second force is natural selection. Natural selection is the survival of a species with the help of their biological characteristics. Fitness, a type of natural selection, is a species ability to survive and produce offspring. The third force is genetic drift. This is a random change in a species' allele frequency. This can happen during a catastrophic

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    Natural and Artificial Selection

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    Therefore, species do change over a period of time and they were able to support their theory by showing that evolution does occur. There were four basic mechanisms of evolution in their theory: mutation, migration, genetic drift, and natural selection. Natural selection is the gradual process by which heritable traits that makes it more

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    1) Natural selection is when the species survival and their reproduction determine the genetic traits compared to artificial selection that is when humans can choose their traits that will show up in their future generations. Although humans intensify and inhibit organism’s genetic traits through select ancestry, nature concerns itself with characteristics that concede improvements to a species' ability to mate and survive. when Humans select organisms to breed for selective traits, some times they

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    Natural Selection

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    natural selection. However, the question still remains as to whether homo sapiens are still evolving through natural selection. Through the nature of science being subject to change and many new discoveries being made each day, it is difficult to make clear confined theories and conclusions, which will not be impacted on in the future. Slide 14: From Lamarck and Darwin’s first key discovery into the theory of evolution and natural selection, the statement of ‘evolution by natural selection is no

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    begin, natural selection and artificial selection are drastically different. Natural selection is the process by which varied traits that increase survival and enable reproduction are passed down from one generation to another generation. Natural selection is where all species have some sort of involvement with the environment that they live in. An example of this would be in a habitat where there are red bugs and green bugs. In the article “Natural Selection

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    Population Selection

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    Rationale on Population Selection: In order to ensure the survival of humankind, we need to preserve the best of all humanity. By taking the top 1% of all people, we can ensure we are getting the best people to represent the survival of our race as a human being. Perhaps with this form of preservation, we can even make humanity better off by blending the genes of the best of the best to make them even better. Utopia or Dystopia: There really is not one answer to this question. I feel that the two

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    multiple members. To drive evolution, there are five forces: Natural selection, Migration, Mutation, Nonrandom mating, and Genetic drift. Natural selection was founded by Charles Darwin, who described the term as “this preservation of favourable variations and the rejection of injurious variations” (Hoefnagels). The idea is from artificial selection when humans choose the most desirable traits for a species. Natural selection changes the allele frequencies within a population and gets rid of the

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    Jessica Northey Exam Number 250104 1.Compare and contrast directional selection and disruptive selection, Provide and example of each. Directional selection and disruptive selection differ because instead of the subject only going in one direction it will split off and go two different ways for example if some flowers and their colors. The main colors may be red, pink and white primarily, and the more dominate color being a pink flower. But if we remove the pink flower completely from the equation

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    Multilevel Selection

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    Multilevel selection (MLS) Presently, the interest for selection of animal have been rejuvenated towards the theory of multilevel selection (Okasha, 2006; West et al. 2008; Gardner and Grafen, 2009; Nowak et al. 2010; Lion et al. 2011; Frank, 2013). From time being debate has been going on to whether or not selection can operate at multiple levels because of the confusion that arises due to the presence of weak individuals at the group levels but with respect to time the individual might show much

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