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.
Because of mutation, a gene can exist in different forms. These alternative forms of a gene are known as alleles. The complete set of alleles contained within an organism is known as its genotype. In asexual organisms, all of the different alleles are linked together evolutionarily. When the organism reproduces, all of the DNA (and all of the alleles are replicated) and pass together, except for those variations introduced by mutation, to their offspring.