The Term _______ Refers to the Success of Individuals in the Population

question 33

Multiple Choice

The term _______ refers to the success of individuals in the population to survive,reproduce,and leave descendants in an environment relative to others.

• A) Fitness
• B) Speciation
• C) Evolution
• D) Natural selection

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Definitions:

Variance

A metric indicating how spread out a group of numbers is, determined by the mean of the squared deviations from the average.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values in the dataset deviate from the mean.

Extreme Scores

Values in a data set that are significantly higher or lower than the majority of the data, potentially acting as outliers.

Variability

Indicates the extent to which data points in a data set differ from the mean or each other.