Fitness

What is Fitness?

    

    As I understand it, fitness refers to how well an organism (or organisms) survive and reproduce. More specifically, how many healthy offspring that organism produces relative to others in the population. The reproduction part is very important since they're passing on their genetic code and trying to keep their line going strong, to keep that species going strong. The more healthy offspring an organism can produce, the better for them (and their species). That being said, I think that one of the easiest ways to measure fitness would probably be the checking the average lifespan of that organism, and checking how many offspring the average organism produces in its lifetime. 

    The best example I can think of would be the tree beetles. One variant was brown, and the other was white. On standard brown tree bark, the brown beetle is going to be camouflaged and have a higher survival rate. It will, in turn, also have a better (and higher) reproduction rate compared to that of the white beetle. Since the white beetle will stick out like a sore thumb, they're going to get picked off more quickly and have a lower population count, which will also impact their ability to reproduce.

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