Natural Selection: Imagine that a population of Cnidarians with life cycles that alternated between sexual and asexual reproductive phases evolved from ancestors whose life cycles lacked asexual phases. Explain how this may have occured via natural selection. In your answer be sure to address all of the key points discussed in class as being necessary to describe evolution by natural selection

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Natural Selection: Imagine that a population of Cnidarians with life cycles that alternated between sexual and asexual reproductive phases evolved from ancestors whose life cycles lacked asexual phases. Explain how this may have occured via natural selection. In your answer be sure to address all of the key points discussed in class as being necessary to describe evolution by natural selection

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Natural selection is basically the central concept of evolution. Natural selection is the process where organisms with favorable traits are more likely to reproduce. In doing so, these organisms pass on these traits to the next generation. Over time this process allows the organisms to adapt to their environment. Natural selection is the process in nature by which the organisms better adapted to their environment and tend to survive and reproduce more than those less adapted to their environment. 

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