To toss in the air, imparting a spin: flip a coin. 2. a. To cause to turn over or around, especially with a light quick motion: flip over a card; flipped the pancake with a spatula.
Natural selection is when favorable traits are passed down to offspring while harmful and less favorable traits are eliminated, due to higher predation, competition from the o â¦ rganisms with more favored traits, etc. Since organisms with more favored traits will, logically, have much more chance of surviving to reproduce than those who lack the favored traits, the next generations will slowly start to accumulate a higher percentage of organisms who have the favored traits.
Genetic variation and diversity in a species is a good advantage. Asexual reproduction essentially clones itself. If something can kill one, it can kill them all. In sexual re â¦ production, there are many different sets of genes so what kills some may not kill all.ecause mutations in non-reproductive cells (aka somatic cells) are not heritable and therefore die with the individual in which they occurred. Only mutations that affect repr â¦ oductive cells (aka germ cells) are inherited by progeny and influence the genetic variation of a population over time.