Look up: selection

1. selection
   Process which favors one feature of organisms in a population over another feature found in the population. This occurs through differential reproduction—those with the favored feature produce more offspring than those with the other feature, such that they become a greater percentage of the population in the next generation.
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2. Selection
   Causing or allowing certain individuals in a population to produce offspring in the next generation.
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3. Selection
   See natural selection.
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4. Selection
   A change in allele frequency over time in a population
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5. Selection
   In breeding, any process, natural or artificial, which permits an increase in the proportion of genotypes of desired characteristics in succeeding generations.
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6. selection
   [Noun] The act of selecting or choosing someone or something.
   Example: The manager is in charge of team selection.
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7. selection
   [n] - an assortment of things from which a choice can be made
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8. Selection
   The process of deciding which materials should be added to a collection. A number of books and other materials collected together by the process of selection
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9. selection
   a) the process by which a computer contacts a peripheral or station to send it a message; b) the process of indicating the number of the terminal being called Category: News-systems and communications • the process of selecting,e.g.for survival Category: Medicine • the proces...
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10. Selection
    Natural selection is the differential contribution of offspring to the next generation by various genetic types belonging to the same populations. Artificial selection is the intentional manipulation by man of the fitness of individuals in a population to produce a desired evolutionary response.
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11. Selection
    Se·lec'tion noun [ Latin selectio : confer French sélection .] . The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference. 2. That which is selected; a collection of things chosen; as, a choice selection...
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12. selection
    <biology> Placing organisms under conditions where the growth of those with a particular genotype will be favored. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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13. selection
    noun an assortment of things from which a choice can be made; `the store carried a large selection of shoes`
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14. selection
    (sә-lek´shәn) the play of forces that determines the relative reproductive performance of the various genotypes in a population. natural selection the survival in nature of those individuals and their progeny best equipped to adapt to environmental conditions. s...
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15. Selection
    • (n.) That which is selected; a collection of things chosen; as, a choice selection of books. • (n.) The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference.
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16. selection
    in biology, the preferential survival and reproduction or preferential elimination of individuals with certain genotypes (genetic compositions), by ... [5 related articles]
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17. selection
    selection An act of choosing someone or something from a wide variety of others.
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18. SELECTION
    A card selected by the spectator. It may be a free choice, or it may be forced.
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19. Selection
    Process of segregating or selecting specific records from a list according to specific criteria.
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20. selection
    primary operation of translation, by which the control function or the symbol to be printed or translated is chosen from the received signal
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21. selection
    Type: Term Pronunciation: sĕ-lek′shŭn Definitions: 1. The combined effect of the causes and consequences of genetic factors that determine the average number of progeny of a species that attain sexual maturity; phenotypes that are lethal early in life (Tay-Sachs disease), that cause ...
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22. Selection
    The horse you are backing.
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23. Selection
    the separation of children into different schools (usually at age 11) on the basis of intelligence and/or ability tests.
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24. Selection
    In the context of evolution, certain traits or alleles of genes segregating within a population may be subject to `selection`. Under selection, individuals with advantageous or "adaptive" traits tend to be more successful than their peers reproductively—meaning they contribute more ...
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25. Selection
    (genetic algorithm) `Selection` is the stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding (recombination or crossover). A generic selection procedure may be implemented as follows: #The fitness function is evaluated for each individual, pr...
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