Discover Biology (Sixth Core Edition)
Discover Biology (Sixth Core Edition)
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Author: Anu Singh-Cundy, Gary Shin
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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To explain: The term “adaptive evolution.”

Concept introduction: Adaptation is a process by which the organisms that best suited or adapted to the environment will survive, reproduce, and can transmit to the next generations, while others undergo extinction. In a mixed population, the organisms possessing a shared trait will be better suited to their environment than others.

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To explain: How do efforts to kill the bacterial species affect the evolution.

Concept introduction: Adaptation is a process by which the organisms that best suited or adapted to the environment will survive, reproduce, and can transmit to the next generations, while others undergo extinction. In a mixed population, the organisms possessing a shared trait will be better suited to their environment than others.

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To explain: Whether the evolutionary changes in the bacterial species are beneficial or harmful to people.

Concept introduction: Adaptation is a process by which the organisms that best suited or adapted to the environment will survive, reproduce, and can transmit to the next generations, while others undergo extinction. In a mixed population, the organisms possessing a shared trait will be better suited to their environment than others.

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