Survival and reproduction
What Survival and reproduction means in Biology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Successful competitors survive and reproduce, so their characteristics become more common.
Living long enough to pass on alleles, which is why survival matters.
Topics that use Survival and reproduction
- Adaptations (AQA GCSE)
- Communities (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Structural, behavioural and functional adaptations
- Abiotic component
- Adaptation
- Adaptation and survival
- Adaptation to environmental conditions
- Behavioural adaptations
- Chemosynthesis in the absence of light
- Classification of adaptations
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