Look up: fitness

1. Fitness
   the measure of a species ability to survive and reproduce
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2. Fitness
   A measure of an object's ability to reproduce viable offspring.
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3. fitness
   The ability of an organism to survive and reproduce; the ability of an organism to pass its genes to the next generation.
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4. Fitness
   The ability of an individual to survive and reproduce relative to conspecifics.
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5. fitness
   [n] - good physical condition 2. [n] - the quality of being qualified 3. [n] - the condition of being suitable
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6. Fitness
   a measure of a person's physical strength, flexibility, and endurance
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7. fitness
   of patients. Category: Medicine • for work. Category: Labour
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8. Fitness
   The contribution made to a population of descendants by an individual relative to the contribution made by others in its present population. The relative contribution that an individual makes to the gene pool of the next generation.
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9. Fitness
   Fit'ness noun The state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness for office.
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10. fitness
    1. Well-being. ... 2. Suitability. ... 3. In population genetics, a measure of the relative survival and reproductive success of a given individual or phenotype, or of a population subgroup. ... 4. A set of attributes, primarily respiratory and cardiovascular, relating to ability to perform tasks re...
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11. fitness
    fittingness noun the condition of being suitable; `they had to prove their fitness for the position`
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12. fitness
    (fit´nis) in genetics, the probability of transmitting one's genotype to the next generation relative to the average probability for the population. physical fitness.
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13. Fitness
    • (n.) The state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person`s fitness for office.
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14. Fitness
    A measure of the health of a species in terms of physiology and future reproductive success.
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15. Fitness
    the average contribution of one allele (i.e., one form of a gene) or genotype to the next generation or to succeeding generations, compared with that of other alleles or genotypes (Futuyma 1970:503). It may be either an absolute value, measured by the number of progeny per parent, or it may be relat...
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16. fitness
    
    • the condition of being suitable
    • good physical condition; being in shape or in condition
    • the quality of being qualified
    
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17. fitness
    Type: Term Pronunciation: fit′nes Definitions: 1. Well-being. 2. Suitability. 3. In population genetics, a measure of the relative survival and reproductive success of a given individual or phenotype, or of a population subgroup. 4. A set of attributes, primarily respiratory and cardiovascular...
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18. fitness
    In genetic theory, a measure of the success with which a genetically determined character can spread in future generations. By convention, the normal character is assigned a fitness of one and variants (determined by other alleles) are then assigned fitness values relative to this. Those with fitnes...
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19. Fitness
    Just as important as learning to fall.
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20. fitness
    A measure of an individual's ability to survive and reproduce; the chance that an individual will leave more offspring in the next generation than other individuals.
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21. Fitness
    (biology) `Fitness` (often denoted <math>w</math> in population genetics models) is a central idea in evolutionary theory. It can be defined either with respect to a genotype or to a phenotype. In either case, it describes the ability to both survive and reproduce, and is equal to the a...
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