Genetic variation

... look at how Darwin defined Natural Selection (paraphrasing) 1. There is variation among indiviuals in a popualtion. 2. That variation is inheritable ... not explain where the variation it acts on comes from. This is where genetics comes in. One source is assortive mating, and another is mutation. ...

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... one explain me the role of meiosis in the production of gametes and genetic variation through recombination of alleles and genes including independent assortment and crossing ...

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Random mutations give rise to new genetic material, this along with natural selection brings about a variation from the original 'stable' genome. Example with the carp - an 'original' fish is competing with ...

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... or some such ridiculousness. Instead I examine a linear progression of genetic change in organisms that have some or all characteristics of what ... classified as species - but remove that stable state, introduce genetic variation, change selective pressures and the lines between species will ...

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... not by population of macro-organisms, but by the combined workings of genetic variation and cumulative selection. In other words, probability is key. Every variation of ...

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