Topic 4- Enviromental adaptation Flashcards
1
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What are selection pressures?
A
Environmental factors that affect the chance of survival of an organism
2
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What are adaptations?
A
Certain alleles within a species population can produce features that make an organism better suited to its environment
3
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What do adaptations enable?
A
organisms to survive in the conditions in which they normally live
4
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What are anatomical adaptations?
A
Structural/physical feature
5
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What are physiological adaptations?
A
Biological processes within the organism
6
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What are behavioural adaptations?
A
The way an organism behaves
7
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What is evolution?
A
the change in adaptive features of a population over time as a result of natural selection
