fitness darwin
March 24, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Pleae Need Urgent Help With Evolution Question!!!!!!!!!!!!?
on his travels, Darwin observed that many organisms have features that appear to help them survive in their lipitor generics specific environment. what is the general term for these features?how do they relate to the fitness of an organism?
I would call them “adaptive traits” or “beneficial traits” (they are not necessarily anatomical … they could be differences in digestive enzymes, or photopigments, for example).
The fitness of an organism is a comparative term. Individuals of a species have higher fitness for an environment than others if they have a combination of traits that gives them some competitive advantages in survival or reproduction.
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