Biology GCSE
Natural selection and survival advantage
What Natural selection and survival advantage means in Biology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Natural selection and survival advantage
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When the environment changes, some individuals may have characteristics giving a survival advantage, and those surviving individuals reproduce and pass on the advantageous alleles.
Topics that use Natural selection and survival advantage
Related terms
- Adaptation and survival
- Application to unfamiliar organisms
- Asexual reproduction
- Asexual reproduction and cloning
- Energy and time efficiency
- Genetic variation
- Human-directed selection
- Principles of asexual and sexual reproduction
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