All of these terms EXCEPT ___________ contribute to natural selection
genes
The fitness of a variant is expressed in terms of the average number of offspring.
Natural selection
Answer 1Many churches of the time posited that god created all the organisms of earth at one time, so that no organism was related except to vary from it's created kind. Darwin showed that through the process of natural selection new species were constantly arising from related organisms.Answer 2Theism rationalizes its beliefs in deities by pointing to the organized nature of nature, claiming that such complexities could not have come about through unguided natural processes. Darwin, with his theory of natural selection, provided just that: an explanation for natural complexities in terms of unguided processes. Basically, while Darwin's theory does not claim that no gods are involved in nature, it did away with the need for any gods to explain the diversity of life.
You have to have variation in order to be able to have more successful variations, which succeed in evolutionary terms, and less successful variations which fail. If there were no variation in a species, there would be no natural selection.
According to evolutionary theory, natural selection is the principle that directs evolution.
genes
In one way or another, all of them. However, we generally don't speak of natural selection in terms of how it affects cells (except perhaps germline cells), but in terms of how it affects populations, lineages or allele frequencies in gene pools. In population genetics, cells are merely the containers for collections of genes, and the machines that express those genes.
The fitness of a variant is expressed in terms of the average number of offspring.
Natural selection. A much more accurate term.
Natural selection
It wasn't! The theory of evolution by natural selection has nothing to do with social Darwinism and to posit such a connection is ill posed. The theory of evolution by natural selection is about individual selection of organisms and has nothing to do with group to group success in economic terms.
Darwinian evolution is descent with modification and natural selection, or, in other terms, reproductive variation and differential reproductive success.
He explained them in terms of descent with modification, common descent and natural selection.
Disruptive selection
Darwinian evolution is descent with modification and natural selection, or, in other terms, reproductive variation and differential reproductive success.
Natural selection.