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Define:
Species
Alleles
Mutations
Fitness
Selective Pressures

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Species: is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

Alleles: one of two or more alternative forms of a gene that arise by mutation and are found at the same place on a chromosome.

Mutations: is a change in a DNA sequence. Mutations can result from DNA copying mistakes made during cell division, exposure to ionizing radiation, exposure to chemicals called mutagens, or infection by viruses.

Fitness: is the quantitative representation of natural and sexual selection within evolutionary biology.

Selective Pressures: are environmental factors or influences which may lessen reproduction in a species' population and therefore contributes to evolutionary change or even extinction through natural selection.

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