Adaptation Summary

Everything you need to understand or teach Adaptation.

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  • 7 Encyclopedia Articles
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Encyclopedia Articles (7)

585 words, approx. 2 pages
Adaptation Adaptations are the most important features of all organisms. An adaptation is a trait or characteristic that makes an animal survive or reproduce better in its environment. These traits ca... Read more
367 words, approx. 2 pages
Adaptation In evolutionary terms an adaptation is the change of a developmental, behavioral, physiological, or anatomical characteristic, resulting in increasing an organism's chance of breeding and s... Read more
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Adaptation and Fitness Adaptation is a term used to describe the process by which specific manifested characters, determined by populations of alleles (forms of a gene) change in a population through ... Read more
267 words, approx. 1 pages
Adaptation Adaptation describes the process whereby an organism adapts to, or learns to survive in, its environment. The process is crucial to natural selection, enabling those organisms or species be... Read more
519 words, approx. 2 pages
Adaptation Adaptation refers to a change in the structure or function of an organism that makes it better suited for its environment. Biologists recognize two types of adaptation: plastic adaptation (... Read more
131 words, approx. 1 pages
Adaptation All members of a population share many characteristics in common. For example, all finches in a particular forest are alike in many ways. But if many hard-to-shell seeds are found in the fo... Read more
343 words, approx. 2 pages
Adaptation Behavior that enables an organism to function effectively in its environment. Adaptation describes the process whereby an organism adapts to, or learns to survive in, its environment. The p... Read more