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Title: Define the term fitness and relate it to the meaning of selection coefficient.
Post by: saraeharris on Jul 13, 2021

Define the term fitness and relate it to the meaning of selection coefficient.

Title: Define the term fitness and relate it to the meaning of selection coefficient.
Post by: amynguyen1221 on Jul 13, 2021

Fitness is a measure of the proportion of offspring that a particular phenotype will contribute to the next generation; the selection coefficient is the mathematical difference between the actual fitness of a given genotype and the optimal fitness for an individual in a given population.