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Why is it important for an organism to have high fitness (the ability to survive and make a lot of offspring)?

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An organism with high fitness has adaptations that are well suited to their environment allowing them survive and reproduce. An organism with low fitness has characteristics that are not well suited to their environment meaning they almost certainly die without reproducing.

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