Natural Selection

Question 1

What is natural selection

Answer 1

Process of certain inherited traits influence ease or difficulty of living in an enviorment genetically influencing populations over time

Question 2

First published book on evolution

Answer 2

The origin of species by natural selection

Question 3

What are Phenotypes?

Answer 3

Physical expression or charactersitcs of that ‘trait’ eg. Hair, body size, metabolisms, reflexes

Question 4

When Phenotypes can be passed on to offspring, we call them

Answer 4

Heritable

Question 5

What is a genotype?

Answer 5

Set of genes in our DNA which is responsible for a particular trait