COMN 2314 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Herbivore, Escherichia Coli, Ape
8 Jun 2016
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Depends on reproductive success relative to other organisms. Or two populations that belong to the same species. You cannot determine fitness without information without the environment. Fruit flies that can survive wi/o food for a long time vs those that survive a short time without food. You don"t know how much food is available in the environment, therefore you don"t know if the ones that survive shortly die. Fitness depends on the specific environment that the organism lives in. Any trait that allows an individual to out reproduce individuals without that trait. Process by which organisms become better matched to their environment. To figure out: measure trait in parents, measure traits in offspring, see if there is a relationship. Took average of beak depth of parents, measured beak depth in offspring, Found that parents with deep beaks produced deep beaked offspring. Large beak resulted in better large seed consumption. Hard shell protects better against water loos in plant seeds.
