What Does Fitness Mean When Speaking in Terms of Evolution

question 8

Multiple Choice

What does fitness mean when speaking in terms of evolution?

• A) Level of overall health of the individual
• B) How many offspring an individual produces
• C) Level of overall health of the population
• D) The size and diversity of the gene pool

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Definitions:

Significance Level

The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis in a statistical test when it is actually true, commonly denoted by alpha and used as a threshold for determining the statistical significance of a result.

Parametric Test

A type of hypothesis test that assumes the sample data comes from a population that fits a certain distribution, typically a normal distribution.

Z-statistic

A measure used in statistics to describe the relationship between the standard deviation of the distribution and the deviation of a point from the mean.

Significance Level

The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is true, also known as the alpha level, used as a criterion for statistical significance.