LIFE SCIENCE

OBJECTIVE LIFE SCIENCE

EVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The ability of an organism to survive and reproduce is known as ____
A
Adaptation
B
Trait
C
Fitness
D
Variation
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In biology, fitness is the ability of an organism to survive and reproduce.

Detailed explanation-2: -Explanation: Biological fitness in the evolutionary sense is only related to fitness in terms to reproduction. Because the primary goal of all organisms is to reproduce, or to pass their DNA onto offspring, fitness is defined as the ability to reproduce and create viable offspring.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the crudest terms, fitness involves the ability of organisms-or, more rarely, populations or species-to survive and reproduce in the environment in which they find themselves 6–9. The consequence of this survival and reproduction is that organisms contribute genes to the next generation.

Detailed explanation-4: -Experts define physical fitness as “one’s ability to execute daily activities with optimal performance, endurance, and strength with the management of disease, fatigue, and stress and reduced sedentary behavior.”

Detailed explanation-5: -Evolutionary biologists use the word fitness to describe how good a particular genotype is at leaving offspring in the next generation relative to other genotypes. So if brown beetles consistently leave more offspring than green beetles because of their color, you’d say that the brown beetles had a higher fitness.

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