What is relative fitness? the ability to survive and reproduce survival of the fittest the contribution an individual makes to the gene pool of the next generation relative to the contribution of other individuals differences among individual in the composition of their genes or other dna sequences differences in dna sequence that do not confer a selective advantage or disadvantage?

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Bruce Blevins

Biology

9 June, 01:09

What is relative fitness? the ability to survive and reproduce survival of the fittest the contribution an individual makes to the gene pool of the next generation relative to the contribution of other individuals differences among individual in the composition of their genes or other dna sequences differences in dna sequence that do not confer a selective advantage or disadvantage?

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Terry Maynard · Answer 1

I believe that relative fitness is the ability to survive and reproduce. It is the survival and reproductive rate of a genotype or phenotype relative to the maximum survival and/or reproductive rate of other genotypes in a population. Fitness is the quantitative representation of natural and sexual selection within evolutionary biology.