Adaptive value
The adaptive value represents the combined influence of all characters which affect the fitness of an individual or population.
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Adaptive value
See fitness.
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Also called adaptive value. The relative reproductive success of a genotype as measured by survival, fecundity or other life history parameters. See Darwinian fitness and natural selection.
adaptive value Degree to which a characteristic helps an organism to survive and reproduce or lends greater fitness in its environment; selective advantage.
The adaptive value of these tropisms is clear.
Roots growing down and/or away from light are more likely to find the soil, water, and minerals they need.
The Pathway and Adaptive Value of a Simple Spinal Reflex Involving 3 Neurones
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Temporal control of DNA replication and the adaptive value of chromatin diminution in copepods. J. Exp. Zool. 291: 310-16.
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Also called adaptive value. The relative reproductive success of a genotype as measured by survival, fecundity or other life history parameters. See Darwinian fitness and natural selection.
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It arose by gene duplication and since it bestows an advantage to the fetus, it was selected for during the evolution of the mammals. The adaptive value of HbF is that it binds oxygen more tightly than HbA and is, therefore, ...
 See also: Fitness, Selection, Life, Survival, Natural selection
  
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