# 1. Describe how new alleles show up in a population. 2. Describe the difference between the...

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1. Describe how new alleles show up in a population.

2. Describe the difference between the term ‘theory’ when it is used in everyday language, and how it is used in scientific context.

3. Explain why mutations do not happen in response to changes in the environment.

4. Traits are not ‘magically’ given to organisms. Explain how the genetic variability in the population can result in a given trait becoming common in that population.

5. Fitness is a difficult concept to grasp when it is used in the context of evolutionary processes. Describe some of the common meanings of the word ‘fitness’ in everyday language and what the term ‘fitness’ means in a biological context.

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