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What is an adaptation? - ✔✔An inherited trait that increases an organism's
chance of surviving and reproducing in its environment. It is an accumulation of
many similar variations.
What are the three categories of adaptations? - ✔✔Structural, behavioral and
functional
What are structural adaptations? - ✔✔Adaptations that involve color, shape
and other physical characteristics (ie. the shape of a tortoises neck).
What is a behavioral adaptation? - ✔✔Adaptations that involve the way an
organism behaves or acts. (ie. hunting at night or moving in a herd)
What is a functional adaptation? - ✔✔Adaptations that involve internal body
systems that affect biochemistry. (ie. A drop in body temperature during
hibernation).
What is camouflage? - ✔✔An adaptation that enables a species to blend in
with its environment.
Is camouflage a structural, behavioral or functional adaptation? - ✔✔Structural
adaptation
What is mimicry? - ✔✔When one special resembles another species.
, Why are camouflage and mimicry beneficial to an organism? - ✔✔They help to
keep it from being eaten.
How do camouflage and mimicry differ? - ✔✔Camouflage allows an organism
to blend in with its environment whereas mimicry allows an organism to look like
another (probably more threatening) organism.
What is an example of an environments non-living parts? - ✔✔Temperature,
water, nutrients in soil and climate
What happens if a species is unable to adapt? - ✔✔It becomes extinct.
What was the name of the book that Darwin wrote? - ✔✔On the Origin of
Species
What is selective breeding? - ✔✔The breeding of organisms for desired
characteristics.
What is the difference between natural selection and selective breeding? -
✔✔With selective breeding, humans choose what is changed, whereas, with
natural selection, organisms change as necessary to survive.
What is artificial selection? - ✔✔The act of selective breeding.
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