Notes in D4.1 Natural Selection

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Published	02/01/2025	Outline the process of natural selection leading to evolution.
Published	02/01/2025	How does mutation produce variation?
Published	02/01/2025	How does sexual reproduction produce variation?
Published	02/01/2025	How does the overproduction of offspring promote natural selection?
Published	02/01/2025	Define the carrying capacity of an environment.
Published	02/01/2025	Define the struggle for survival
Published	02/01/2025	Distinguish between density-dependent and density-independent selection pressures and give examples of both.
Published	02/01/2025	Define selection pressure.
Published	02/01/2025	Define intraspecific competition
Published	02/01/2025	Define fitness.
Published	02/01/2025	Define survival value.
Published	02/01/2025	Define reproductive potential.
Published	02/01/2025	Define adaptations
Published	02/01/2025	How does intraspecific competition lead to evolution?
Published	02/01/2025	Are acquired characteristics heritable?
Published	02/01/2025	Explain physical traits and behavioural traits as indicators of overall fitness.
Published	02/01/2025	Explain why the male birds of paradise have evolved to have ornate plumages.
Published	02/01/2025	Define sexual dimorphism.
Published	02/01/2025	Explain John Edler's guppy experiments.
Published	02/01/2025	Define the gene pool.
Published	02/01/2025	How is allele frequency calculated?
Published	02/01/2025	How is evolution defined with respect to allele frequency?
Published	02/01/2025	Distinguish between Darwinism and Neo-Darwinism.
Published	02/01/2025	Explain stabilising, directional, and disruptive selection.
Published	02/01/2025	State the Hardy-Weinberg equation and what its variables stand for.
Published	02/01/2025	State the Hardy-Weinberg conditions.
Published	02/01/2025	Explain how selective breeding is carried out.
Published	02/01/2025	Define artificial selection.
Published	02/01/2025	Is antibiotic resistance a result of natural or artificial selection? Explain.
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