- Institution/s: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Universidad de Alicante, Universidad de Valladolid, Université d'Artois
- Project: Diccionario Terminológico de Genética (Eurogene)
- Identification number: 29
- Subdomains: Studies of chromatin, Studies of DNA, Studies of RNA, Techniques
- Author/s: Aida GONZÁLEZ ALBORS, Beatriz BURGOS CUADRILLERO, Elena Irene ZAMORA RAMÍREZ, Marie-Hélène GARCIA
- Creation / modification date: 01-03-2014
- Term: natural selection
- Gramatical category: s
- Definition: Any consistent difference in fitness among phenotypically different biological entities.
- Context: As scientists considered the links between Darwin’s and Mendel’s discoveries, they realized that mutation, natural selection, and inheritance work together to produce evolutionary change.
- Weighting mark: nor
- Sources:
- Term: FOX, C.W., ROFF, D.A. y D.J. FAIRBAIRN (2001). Evolutionary Ecology: Concepts and Case Studies. USA: Oxford University Press.
- Definition: FOX, C.W., ROFF, D.A. y D.J. FAIRBAIRN (2001). Evolutionary Ecology: Concepts and Case Studies. USA: Oxford University Press.
- Context: GIBSON, J.P. y T.R. GIBSON (2009). Natural selection. USA: Infobase publishing.
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