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Fitness
The potential evolutionary success of an allele or genotype, which is defined as the reproductive success or the proportion of genes that an individual leaves in the gene pool of a population (expected contribution to future generations). The individuals with the greatest fitness leave the largest numbers of offspring.The fitness of genes and organisms is always relative to the other genes and organisms that are present in the same population.
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