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How natural selection could lead to a change in allele frequency

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Allele frequency can be described as a phenomenon which measure how common an allele is in a particular population. It tells about the genes which are richest in a gene pool and it also shows the genetic diversity in a population. Allele frequency is often expressed in percentages.

Natural selection tends to favour those organisms that are best adapted to live in an environment and which can withstand changes occurring in the ecosystem. If due to some circumstances, a trait becomes less useful to organisms in a population then by natural selection the allele frequency for those alleles will reduce with time. Similarly, the alleles which code for better genes for an environmental change will be increased due to the phenomenon of natural selection.

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Natural selection can cause micro evolution, or a change in allele frequencies over time, with increase fitness alleles, that becoming more common in the population over generations.

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NATURAL SELECTION:

Natural selection is refer to how the offspring organisms or particular genotype or phenotype steps into the next generation. It lead to changes in the allele frequency; natural selection can causes small number of evolution and that causes allele frequencies changed for long time; and the increases in the allele becoming more common in the population over generation;

ALLELE FREQUENCY:

Natural selection, genetic drift, mutations, genetic flow are the four factors that changes the population generation. This made the natural selection leads to change in the allele frequency.

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Mantle convection is the slow creepingmotion of earth's solid silicate mantle caused by convection currents carrying heat from the interior to the planet's surface.[1][2] the earth's surface lithosphere, which rides atop the asthenosphere (the two components of the upper mantle), is divided into a number of plates that are continuously being created and consumed at their opposite plate boundaries. accretion occurs as mantle is added to the growing edges of a plate, associated with seafloor spreading. this hot added material cools down by conduction and convection of heat. at the consumption edges of the plate, the material has thermally contracted to become dense, and it sinks under its own weight in the process of subduction usually at an ocean trench.[3]this subducted material sinks through the earth's interior. some subducted material appears to reach the lower mantle,[4] while in other regions, this material is impeded from sinking further, possibly due to a phase transition from spinel to silicate perovskiteand magnesiowustite, an endothermic reaction.[5]the subducted oceanic crust triggers volcanism, although the basic mechanisms are varied. volcanism may occur due to processes that add buoyancy to partially melted mantle causing an upward flow due to a decrease in density of the partial melt.secondary forms of convection that may result in surface volcanism are postulated to occur as a consequence of intraplate extension[6] and mantle plumes.[7]it is because the mantle can convect that the tectonic plates are able to move around the earth's surface.[8]mantle convection seems to have been much more active during the hadean period, resulting in gravitational sorting of heavier molten iron, and nickel elements and sulphides in the core, and lighter silicate minerals in the mantle.

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