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Why is it said that natural selection acts on phenotypes rather than on the genetic material of organisms?

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It's because an organism's phenotype, or physical traits, are what truly decide whether it can reproduce and pass on its genotype to the following generation.

Because the phenotype of an organism represents the alleles that are actually expressed in that organism, natural selection affects that phenotype.

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