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If we say an organism has “high evolutionary fitness,” we mean that:

A. It is the strongest, fastest, and most aggressive individual in its population.
B. It produces a large number of offspring that survive to reproduce themselves.
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C. It has mutated its genome to become resistant to all known diseases.
D. It has lived longer than any other member of its species.

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Evolutionary fitness is defined solely by reproductive success; it is a measure of how many copies of its genes an individual passes on to subsequent, reproducing generations.

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  • It is the strongest, fastest, and most aggressive individual in its population.
  • It produces a large number of offspring that survive to reproduce themselves.
  • It has mutated its genome to become resistant to all known diseases.
  • It has lived longer than any other member of its species.

Evolutionary fitness is defined solely by reproductive success; it is a measure of how many copies of its genes an individual passes on to subsequent, reproducing generations.

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