fitness

fitness
noun Date: 1580 1. the quality or state of being fit 2. the capacity of an organism to survive and transmit its genotype to reproductive offspring as compared to competing organisms; also the contribution of an allele or genotype to the gene pool of subsequent generations as compared to that of other alleles or genotypes

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  • fitness — fitness. См. приспособляемость. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …   Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.

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