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How is DNA related to natural selection and evolution?

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Evolution is the change in allele ( different molecular form of same gene-DNA )frequency over time in a population of organisms. While natural selection selects the better adapted variant organisms that have different gene frequencies due to recombination and mutation of DNA.

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