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 succeeding generations. The changes are specifically related to...

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 can be morphological, physiological, or behavioral. Adaptations...

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 (plasticity) and evolutionary adaptation. Plasticity is the...

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 survival. Adaptation is the process whereby organisms undergo...

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 process is crucial to natural selection, enabling...

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 best suited to a particular environment to survive. Ethologists,...

in biology, process by which an animal or plant becomes fitted to its environment; it is the result of natural selection acting upon heritable variation. Even the simpler organisms must be adapted in a great variety of ways: in their structure,...

(i) Perception: Adaptation is a nearly universal property of neural systems. Prolonged stimulation leads to steady decline in responsivity. Adaptation has also been demonstrated behaviourally in studies of human spatial vision and has been a key...

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 forest, those finches with stronger, more conical bills will have...

In biology, the process by which an animal or plant becomes fitted to its environment. It is the result of natural selection acting on inherited variation. Even simple organisms must be adapted in many ways, including structure, physiology, and...

n. The process by which a speaker consciously adjusts her/his speech towards a different variety perceived as more desirable, as when a speaker of a regional accent attempts to produce something approximating to Received Pronunciation, or when a...

The tendency of certain receptors to become less responsive or cease to respond to repeated or continued...

For other uses, see Adaptation (disambiguation). An adaptation is a positive characteristic of an organism that has been favored by natural selection.[1] The concept is central to biology, particularly in evolutionary biology. The term adaptation is...