Botanical Terms -adaptive value (fitness, fitness, and selective value according to Darwin)

Botanical Terms -adaptive value (fitness, fitness, and selective value according to Darwin)
​The ratio of genetic benefits to drawbacks that establishes a species' (or *genotype's) propensity to endure and procreate in a certain habitat. Which people are most suited to accomplish this depends on their surroundings and the competition or fight for survival they face; the "fittest" individual (or genotype) is the one who generates the greatest number of offspring that eventually reach reproductive maturity. The "survival of the fittest" has been used to characterize this type of natural selection.