NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Natural Selection Operates on Phenotype The traits that an individual expresses, its phenotype, are what will give that individual an advantage or disadvantage in the struggle to survive and reproduce. Natural selection operates on phenotype.

Detailed explanation-2: -Natural selection acts on the phenotype, or the observable characteristics of an organism, such that individuals with favorable phenotypes are more likely to survive and reproduce than those with less favorable phenotypes.

Detailed explanation-3: -Natural selection acts on populations. Individuals do not evolve in genetic evolutionary terms. Individuals may mutate, but natural selection acts by shifting the characteristics of the population as a whole.

Detailed explanation-4: -Natural selection is the process in nature by which organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and reproduce more than those less adapted to their environment. For example, treefrogs are sometimes eaten by snakes and birds.