What is the fitness of an organism?

Biology · College · Wed Jan 13 2021

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Answer: fitness involves the ability of organisms— or, more rarely, populations or species— to survive and reproduce in the environment in which they find themselves . The consequence of this survival and reproduction is that organisms contribute genes to the next generation.

Fitness is commonly analyzed in two ways. One involves the actual “components” that give rise to differences in fitness among organisms and the other involves mathematical measures of fitness. 

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