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EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE
MECHANISMS OF EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE
• Natural Selection
• Artificial Selection
• Nonrandon Mating
• Genetic Drift
• Mutation
• Recombination
• Genetic Flow (Migration) Evolutionary Theory by Charles Darwin
NATURAL SELECTION
A key factor for an organism to thrive and reproduce depends on how
well suited the organism is to the environment.
TYPES OF NATURAL SELECTION
Direct Selection
Happens when a change in the environment causes a change in the observable
spectrum of phenotypes.
Stabilizing Selection
Occurs when intermediate phenotypes are more likely to survive in the
environment.
Beneficial Mutation
- affects the phenotype of organisms, resulting in an increase in their chances
of survival or reproduction.
RECOMBINATION
Is simply a rearrangement of genes. This process naturally occurs during the
crossing over stage in meiosis, where there is an exchange of DNA between
homologous chromosomes.
GENETIC FLOW
Is also known as migration. This happens when there is transfer of genes from
the gene pool of one population to another.