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-Selection: a selection is a process through which a researcher is attempting to find rare individuals with certain phenotypes and has some way of enriching for the rare individuals by killing off all other individuals that do not match the search criteria. Contrast to a screen.
+Selection: There are two distinct but somewhat related definitions for this term:
+In model organism research, a selection is a process through which a researcher is attempting to find rare individuals with certain phenotypes and has some way of enriching for the rare individuals by killing off all other individuals that do not match the search criteria. Contrast to a screen.
+In population genetics, selection refers the environment conferring an advantage in survival or reproduction to individuals of one genotype over another.