Evolution Of Evolution Research Paper

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Evolution, it is a big mystery but what is evolution. Evolution is the process by which organisms have changed over time. The history of evolution became history when two men Lamarck and Darwin thought of this unique idea that organisms change over time. Lamarck and Darwin had some things in common like animals could change but their thoughts on why and how are very different. Darwin believed that modern animals evolved through descendants from common ancestors and lamarck believed that individual organisms can change during their lifetime by choosing what parts of their bodies they wanted to use and they could pass these chosen traits onto their offspring therefore causing evolution overtime
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Mutation is a change in an organism's DNA. Mutation can serve as a mechanism to evolution because mutations can introduce new alleles into a gene pool changing allele frequencies and causing evolution to occur. Gene flow is the movement of genes into or out of a population's. This can serve as a mechanism because if an organism joins a population it may introduce new alleles and organisms that leave may remove alleles. If allele frequency in the population changes evolution has occurred. Genetic drift is when is a random change in allele frequency by chance events. Genetic drift can be a mechanism because in small populations organisms that carry a specific allele may leave more offspring than other organisms just by chance. Over time this change of alleles become more or less common in a population. Nonrandom mating is mating that has human interference. For example, arrange marriage or organisms that mate because they look alike. This could be mechanisms because evolution is defined as the change of alleles in the population's gene pool over the generations. Nonrandom mating rapidly shifts the gene pool content so it contain only the desired alleles. Therefore the population has

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