13.14. Matching

Q-1:
• Environment
• The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.
• Differential Survival (Reproduction)
• Differences that idividuals have between each other that affect their reproducibility or survivability.
• Variation
• differences between individuals.
• Adaptation
• Species interact with their environments in ways that seem too good to happen by chance.
• Increasing Complexity
• More complex organisms did not start appearing till later in earths geological record.
• Increasing Diversity
• The ammount of species on earth has generally increased over time.
• Fitness
• It is the ability of an agent to survive or reproduce.
• Fitness Contributions
• Agent genotype corresponding to its location in the fitness landscape.
• Fitness Landscape
• It is a function that maps from genotype to fitness.
• Genotype
• This is the information that will get copied when the agent replicates itself.
• Natural Selection
• The process in which the survival and reproduction of individuals depend on their inherited variations.
• Phenotype
• Organism’s genotype and how it is related to its physical form and capabilities.
• Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection
• Existing species change due to natural selection creating a new species.
• Replicators
• Way for agents to reproduce.

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