LIFE SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Natural selection is a mechanism of evolution. Organisms that are more adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and pass on the genes that aided their success. This process causes species to change and diverge over time.

Detailed explanation-2: -Selection: Survival and Reproduction Because resources are limited, more organisms are born than can survive: some individuals will be more successful at finding food, mating or avoiding predators and will have a better chance to thrive, reproduce, and pass on, their DNA.

Detailed explanation-3: -"Survival of the fittest” is a popular term that refers to the process of natural selection, a mechanism that drives evolutionary change. Natural selection works by giving individuals who are better adapted to a given set of environmental conditions an advantage over those that are not as well adapted.

Detailed explanation-4: -It’s called ‘natural selection’ because it’s a way of selecting organisms with certain traits that’s driven completely by nature, compared to ‘artificial selection’ such as when humans breed sheep to become more wooly and more tame by deliberately cross-breeding and selecting for desirable-to-humans traits.