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Our genes decide what characteristics we inherit, but the environment can affect how these inherited characteristics develop, like a person could be tall but in their childhood have a poor diet which cause poor growth.

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How do mutations affect variations within organisms?

Mutations can introduce new genetic variations within a population by changing the DNA sequence. These variations can lead to differences in physical traits, behaviors, or disease susceptibility. Over time, if these variations provide a benefit in a specific environment, they may become more prevalent in the population through natural selection.


Which organism causes cracks in rocks changing the environment where other organisms can grow?

Lichens are organisms that can cause cracks in rocks by secreting acids that break down the rock surface. This can create new microhabitats for other organisms to grow, leading to changes in the environment.


Define disease causing organisms?

Disease-causing organisms, also known as pathogens, are microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites that can invade the body and cause illness. These organisms have the ability to multiply and spread throughout the body, leading to symptoms of disease.


How changes in the environment affect a community of organisms?

how changes in the environment affect a community of organisms


How might global warming the evolution of living things?

Those organisms that had variations which caused to survive and be reproductively successful in the changing environment world fulfill the definition of evolution. The change in allele frequency over time in a population of organisms. Perhaps new species would arise from this change and perhaps not. Time and environment would tell.

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Is individuals with variations that make them better adapted to their environment will not survive?

no organisms adapt to the environment to help them survive


How will variations in organism be useful in plant and animal breeding?

Variations in organisms can certainly be useful in plant and animal breeding. These variations lead to adaptions to the environment.


Which is not a cause of evolutionary in organasims?

Evolution does not occur as a response to the needs of the organism. It is not driven by individual organisms adapting to their environment, but by the process of natural selection acting on variations within a population over time.


How do desert plants adapt to the desert?

Life does not proactively adapt to anything. Life in the desert becomes adapted to that environment because the living organisms that can not survive in that environment die off.The organisms with natural variations that enable them to survive in the desert do so and breed, those variations become established in the population and so the process continues, generation after generation until there are organisms in the desert that do very well in that environment.


How do genera plants adapt to the desert?

Life does not proactively adapt to anything. Life in the desert becomes adapted to that environment because the living organisms that can not survive in that environment die off.The organisms with natural variations that enable them to survive in the desert do so and breed, those variations become established in the population and so the process continues, generation after generation until there are organisms in the desert that do very well in that environment.


How do mutation or variations in organisms and selection cause evolution to happen?

Mutations or variations in organisms create genetic diversity, giving rise to individuals with different traits. Natural selection then acts on these traits, favoring those that provide a reproductive advantage in a particular environment. Over time, this process leads to the accumulation of advantageous traits in a population, resulting in evolutionary change.


Is that true the environment favors certain variations in organisms over others?

I believe what you're referring to is natural selection. In short, yes it does. Certain organisms have characteristics that allow them to survive more efficiently in a certain environment than other organisms of the same species. As a result, these organisms survive to reproduce, thus passing on these efficient variations to their offspring, and so the cycle continues. The organism without these variations is less likely to survive, meaning it will be unable to reproduce and pass on it's characteristics. Eventually, this will cycle out the characteristics or variations that aren't adequate for surviving in said environment, and only the well-equipped will survive. This process is more commonly known as "survival of the fittest."


How the environment affects the behavior of organisms?

organisms help theenvironment and the environment helps organisms


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 are the differences between organisms?

variations


What is the difference between organisms of the same species?

Organisms of the same species share similar genetic makeup and physical characteristics but can have variations in traits due to genetic diversity. These differences can be influenced by factors like environment, diet, and upbringing, leading to variations in behaviors, appearances, and adaptability within the species.


What a group of organisms and their environment?

A group of organisms and their environment is a biome.