"fitness" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Adaptation to pesticides usually decreases relative fitness of organisms in the absence of pesticides.
- However markers showing adaptive responses to environmental change can be 'non-neutral' (e.g. mutational changes affect their relative fitness within a population).
- In population genetics, the selection coefficient is a measure of the relative fitness of a phenotype.
- Microevolutionary variation does affect the relative fitness and transmission dynamics of antibiotic-resistant strains.
- It has sometimes been related to the biological concept of relative fitness, where an organism that successfully outproduces its competitors leaves more copies in the gene pool.
- The relative fitness of various traits will therefore vary between populations.
- Their relative fitness is given by (cf. op.
- There are two commonly used measures of fitness; absolute fitness and relative fitness.
- Perhaps pleiotropic effects of the genes acting on colour also affect the beetle's physiology, and hence its relative fitness.
- The candidates have serious differences over the scope of the Attorney General's job and their relative fitness for it.
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