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Selecting from the following list of names, match the item with the name best associated with it.
-New York World


Definitions:

Malaria

A life-threatening disease caused by parasites transmitted to humans through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes, characterized by fever, chills, and flu-like illness.

HbS Allele

A variant of the human hemoglobin gene associated with sickle cell disease, resulting from a single nucleotide substitution that alters the hemoglobin's structure.

Selection

In evolutionary biology, a process by which certain traits become more or less common in a population due to the differential reproductive success of organisms with those traits.

Antigenic Drift

Describes natural selection on seasonal influenza viruses that alters the structure of surface proteins, allowing them to evade the antibody-mediated immunity induced during previous infections or vaccinations.

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