ASSIAGNMENT NATURAL SECLECTION

MODERN CONCEPT OF NATURAL SELECTION

Natural selection is the differential survival and or reproduction of organism’s
as a function of their physical attributes because of their phenotypes which are
due to the amalgam of traits that make up an individual,some individual do
better than others.
selection patterns
Selection is defined as some sort of functional relationship between fitness and
phenotype and we can easily describe fitness in terms of three kinds.
1.Directional selection in which the trait is linearly related to fitness.
2.Stabilizing selection in which there is optimal value for the trait of interest.
3.Disruptive selection in which individuals with intermediate values are at a
fitness disadvantage.
LEVEL OF SELECTION
The genetic makeup of a population is altered through an interaction with the
ecology of the organism refer to this interaction as the process of natural and
sexual selection .The fundamental premise Darwinian selection is that natural
selection acts on the individual or more properly ,differences in phenotype
among individual with in population.
In recent years a numbers of authors have argued that selection might act at a
number of different level and these level of selection are loosely structured
according to hierarchies of biological organization.
Genes>individual>kin>group>spices.