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What two traits altered or changed by variations in environment?
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If an animal is in a cold environment, it may grow thick skin or long hair. It may also produce other specialized organs for surviving in the cold weather. ex. a long nose to warm its mouth. Likewise, if an animal lives in a warm environment, then it may have very thin skin or short/no hair. Plus, it may be better adapted to keeping water.
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Which of these humans traits is altered by variations in environment?
height
Which of the traits is altered by variations in the environment?
Blood type
What determines which traits in a population are favorable and which are unfavorable?
The immediate environment winnows all variations and some match that environment favorable.
How helpful variations accumulate in a specie over time?
Helpful variations accumulate in a species over time by selecting those traits that allow it to better live in the environment it is in.
What is the process by which of the best suited individuals can survive in their environment?
In science, this sometimes called the survival of the fittest or natural selection.If all individuals in a species are not exactly clones of each other but have small variations in the genes (traits), some will do better when the environment changes. These traits will be 'favored' over other traits.
What are genetic traits?
Genetic traits are variations of features passed on to offspring from there parents.
How do helpful variation accumulate in a species over time?
Helpful variations accumulate in a species over time by selecting those traits that allow it to better live in the environment it is in.
Can mutations increase the variations in a species' traits?
Yes
Why does natural selection depend on variations and DNA?
The variations in the DNA are responsible in differences between desirable traits and unwanted traits. Mutations also cause changes in the DNA.
How does natural selection result in adaptation to the environment?
All organisms are variations and some of these variations confer survivability and reproductive success on the organism that processes the variant traits and the progeny of this organism and all against the immediate environment. Natural selection is just the immediate environment that selects these favored organisms over their conspecifics and then the progeny of these favored organisms leave greater allele frequencies of these favored traits in the populations gene pool and these trait grow to majority ststus as the adaption now seen in the population.
What kind of traits develop as a result of your environment?
what are the traits called that develope as a result of your environment
How do plants create new varieties?
If all individuals in a species (peas) are not exactly clones of each other but have small variations in the genes (traits), some will do better when the environment changes (drought). These traits will be "favored" over other traits. More individuals will be found with the trait. A new variety of peas will be found.
