- 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: SCHAAF, Christian, ZSCHOCKE, Johannes (2013). Basiswissen Humangenetik. 2. Aufl. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 140.
- Definition: SCHAAF, Christian, ZSCHOCKE, Johannes (2013). Basiswissen Humangenetik. 2. Aufl. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 140.
- Context: BUSELMAIER, Werner (2012). Biologie für Mediziner. 12. neubearbeitete und erweiterte Aufl. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 318.
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