Candy Dish Selection

• Not every feature of an organism is an adaptation, but features often reflect their evolutionary history.
• Traits that are advantageous often persist in a population.
• The process by which advantageous traits are maintained and disadvantageous traits are weeded out of a population is known as natural selection.
• Depending on environmental conditions, inherited characteristics may be advantageous, neutral, or detrimental.
• Random factors affect the survival of individuals and of populations.
• Natural selection acts on individuals and populations in a nonrandom way.

• Genetic Variation
• Adaptation
• Natural Selection