Question

The Darwinian fitness can be estimated by

• A. documenting how long different individuals in a population survive
• B. counting the number of offsprings produced by different individuals in a population
• C. determining which individuals have large size in a population
• D. determining which phenotype is the most common one in a given population

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

Darwinian fitness can be estimated by the number of offspring produced by different individuals in a population. The organisms which bear favourable variations in accordance to the environment have more offspring than the others which do not have variations in accordance with environment.