The mechanism that Darwin proposed forevolution is natural selection. Because resources are limited in nature, organisms with heritable traits that favor survival and reproduction will tend to leave more offspring than their peers, causing the traits to increase in frequency over generations.
Fumarases (Fums) catalyze the reversible reaction converting fumarate to L-malate. There are two kinds of Fums: Class І and ІІ. Thermostable Class ІІ Fums, from mesophilic microorganisms, are utilized for industrial L-malate...
1 Answers 1 viewsThe introduction of Darwin's theory of evolutionby natural selection has given a new branch of biological classification - Evolutionary taxonomy or Darwinian classification, building phylogenetic trees, permitting paraphyletic taxa. The...
1 Answers 1 viewsCharles Darwin developed the theory of evolution, not the theory of natural selection. Natural selection was suggested by him as a means of evolution, just the sequence of events which...
1 Answers 1 viewsModern Synthesis is a theory about how evolution works at the level of genes, phenotypes, and populations whereas Darwinism was concerned mainly with organisms, speciation and individuals. As natural selection...
1 Answers 1 viewsAccording to Modern Synthetic theory, natural selection brings about evolutionary change by favoring differential reproduction of genes, which produce change in gene frequency from one generation to the next. Natural...
1 Answers 1 viewsThe fundamental forces behind evolutionary change through natural selection are differences in survival and reproduction among individuals. In many species of animals and some plants differences in reproductive success can...
1 Answers 1 viewsKin selection is altruism that helps to increase a relative's fitness and consequently the individual's own fitness. Group selection is a process where an individual's detrimental behavior is beneficial to the population.
1 Answers 1 viewsThe members of natural populations vary with respect to characteristics at all levels. They differ in their morphology, their microscopic structure, their chromosomes, the amino acid sequences of their proteins....
1 Answers 1 viewsNatural selection helps species adapt to change across generations but does not help living beings cope with fast environmental change.Evolution, the change in traits of a population over a period...
1 Answers 1 viewsThe male grasps the female around the torso with his forelimbs and fertilizes the eggs as they emerge. The male often grabs the female well in advance of actual egg...
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