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Evolution Vs Phenotypes
Evolution is described as the process by which living organisms have developed throughout history. Within evolution is natural selection, where organisms who better adapt to their environment tend to survive longer and reproduce more. In our experiment we predicted that when the heritability, which is the measure in genetics that is used to determine characteristics or phenotype of an organ, and the variance, the measure that determines how different the phenotypes are, of the finches in our controlled group Darwin Island is set to 0 there will be little to no evolution taking place. However when heritability and variance in our treatment group, Wallace Island, is set to it’s maximum there will be more evolution than in our controlled group
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