Microbiology: An Evolving Science (Fourth Edition)
Microbiology: An Evolving Science (Fourth Edition)
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Author: John W. Foster, Joan L. Slonczewski
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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The process of natural selection acts on the heritable trait in a population that selects the beneficial alleles and increases their frequency in a population, while in adaptive evolution deleterious alleles are selected thereby decreasing the frequency. Adaptive evolution requires natural selection.

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