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Evolution by Natural Selection

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Define natural selection, genetic drift.

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Natural selection is the process of adaption of an organism to its environment by means of selectively reproducing changes in its genotype or its genetic constitution.
Genetic drift is defined as a change in the allele frequency of a population over time due to a random selection of certain genes.

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