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What is the difference between adaptation and natural selection?

Adaptation is a trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment, while natural selection is the process by which organisms with advantageous adaptations are more likely to survive and pass on their genes to the next generation. In other words, adaptation is the result of natural selection.


What term did Darwin use to to describe the process by which those individuals that possess superior physical behavioral or other attributes are more likely to survive than those that are?

Darwin used the term "natural selection" to describe the process by which individuals with advantageous traits that better suit their environment are more likely to survive and pass on their genes to the next generation. This process leads to the gradual evolution of species over time.


How do adaptations help organisms survive?

Adaptations help organisms survive by enhancing their ability to obtain food, find shelter, reproduce, and avoid predators. Through natural selection, individuals with beneficial adaptations are more likely to survive and pass these traits on to their offspring, increasing their chances of success in their environment.


What is the process by which organisms best adapted to their environment survive to reproduce while those not so adapted do not survive to reproduce?

it is called evolution, and happens over hundreds of years, camels have thick eyelids to keep their eyes safe in sandstorms, this was Charles Darwins theory. That's half of it. You forgot the other MORE important half. Natural Selection. The whole process has very little to do with a camel's eyelids.


What role do organisms play in their evolution?

Evolution is the effect caused by the interaction of organisms and their environment, organisms and other organisms, organisms and their genes, and so on. The simplest answer to this question is that organisms produce and propagate replications of the alleles they carry: they reproduce.

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natural selection?

A process in which individuals that have certain inherited traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of those traits.


What are Darwin's four postulates?

1. There is variation in individuals within a species 2. Variation ensures that individuals that are better suited to their environment will survive. 3. Traits that assist individuals in survival and allow them to reprduce gradually spread throughout population. 4. Individuals produce more offspring than the local resources can support.


How do bacteria reproduce and survive?

They can survive in very unfavorable condition where other organisms cannot exsist


How do lemmings reproduce?

Lemmings reproduce sexually, similar to other mammals. They are more likely to reproduce when there are plenty of resources, and they can reproduce quickly.


Why is saying individuals adapt themselves to an environment wrong?

If you are talking about biological adaptation, an individual can't change its genes to fit the environment better. If two individuals have different genes, one may be more fitted to survive and reproduce. Its genes will be passed on, and the other's won't, so the next generation will be more likely to have the advantageous gene. As this process continues, the population has more and more individuals like this. So, it's the species which adapts, not the individual.


How are cells and living things alike?

They both have functions to help each other survive and reproduce to have offspring (cells reproduce asexually). Hope that helps!:)


What group of organisms will most likely survive?

Organisms with traits that allow them to adapt to changes in their environment, reproduce successfully, and outcompete other species are most likely to survive. These could include species with high genetic diversity, rapid reproduction rates, or specialized adaptations that make them better suited to changing conditions.


How does adaptations affect the diversity of a species?

Adaptations make the species different from other species, and if they are passed down, they will make more species with these differences.


What do wild tigers need to survive?

Food, water, space, and other tigers to reproduce with to produce offspring.


What is the difference between adaptation and natural selection?

Adaptation is a trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment, while natural selection is the process by which organisms with advantageous adaptations are more likely to survive and pass on their genes to the next generation. In other words, adaptation is the result of natural selection.


Which situation is the least likely to result in a new inherited characteristics?

mutations which occur in muscle cells and skin cells


How do lions survival?

They survive by eating food and drinking water. At the water hole that's where they find their prey! Lions survive like every other animal. They eat, sleep, and reproduce. Lions survive by hunting other animals