Birgid Schlindwein's
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| Adaptation | In the evolutionary sense, some heritable feature of an individual's phenotype that improves its chances of survival and reproduction in the existing environment. |
| Evolution | In Darwinian terms a gradual change in phenotypic frequencies in a population that results in individuals with improved reproductive success. |
| Phenotype | The term coined by Johannsen (1909) for the appearance (Gk. phainein, to appear) of an organism with respect to a particular character or group of characters (physical, biochemical, and physiologic), as a result of the interaction of its genotype and its environment. Often used to define the consequences of a paticular mutation. |
| Survival | State of surviving; remaining alive; a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment. One measure of fitness. |
| Reproduction | Continuation of species or breed, sexually or through cell rupture, cell division, budding, spore formation, conjugation or parthenogenesis. |
| Environment | The combination of all the conditions external to the genome that potentially affect its expression and its structure. |