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Natural Selection And Adaption

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Natural selection and the traits with adaption. In order to have change in the inherited traits of a population of organisms throughout successive generations we need mutation, gene flow, genetic drift, and natural selection. Most of these inherited traits will have an effect from the environment the organism lives in. The most powerful of these agents in mutation, which is the changes in a cell’s DNA; which can be caused by environmental mutations such as UV rays and toxins, and also these mutations can occur normally with an error in DNA replication during cell division. Gene flow, migration and genetic drift act on variations from mutation. Gene flow is the movement of different individuals and tends to be a homogenizing factor occurring

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