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.
Natural selection looks for the best traits to fit the current environment of a species. Now, natural selection does not directly cause an adaptation. This is how it works: if â¦ a mutation causes a species to produce more surviving offspring that inherit that trait, than many many many generations down the line it would be considered an adaptation.