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.
This process is natural selection. The traits that confer an advantage to those individuals who leave more offspring are called adaptations. In order for natural selection to operate on a trait, the trait must possess heritable variation and must confer an advantage in the competition for resources. If one of these requirements does not occur, then the trait does not experience natural selection.