How Does Natural Selection Affect the Frequency of Mutations?

How Does Natural Selection Affect The Frequency Of Mutations??

Mutation and natural selection: As mutations create variation, natural selection affects the frequency of that trait in a population. Mutations that confer a benefit (such as running faster or digesting food more efficiently) can help that organism survive and reproduce, carrying the mutation to the next generation.

How does natural selection affect the frequency at which mutations happen in DNA?

It can occur by natural selection, when certain traits created by genetic mutations help an organism survive or reproduce. Such mutations are thus more likely to be passed on to the next generation, so they increase in frequency in a population.

Maya Lin-Takahashi

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