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A shell can camoflage the soft bodied organism, help them burrow underneath to a safer warmer nutrient filled place, as well as a organism with a shell is offered a solid strong protection against hungry predators.
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What might be one evolutionary advantage and one disadvantage to being a specialist?
clouds are mad of fog and rain
What country did snails come from?
Snails are a VERY old lifeform. They are an important evolutionary step up from the worms, and invented the shell. This invention means that they are very early in having a rigid body shape, and which may be used as protection, and as a place to which muscles may be attached. Even garden slugs still have a tiny bit of shell inside their body. There is no identifiable country or continent that could be considered their original home.
How is a forked uterus in pigs an adaptation for multiple births?
The uterus of pigs has separate canals instead of a single canal. The evolutionary advantage of this is that multiple births can be performed.
What is a escoskeleton?
An exoskeleton is a boney outer shell (crabs, lobster) as apposed to an endoskeleton which is having the bones on the inside.
Why the tortoise shell is not smooth summary?
the moral of the story is 1) we should not the advantage of other's kindness 2) we should not be a dumb as such as tortoise's wife (she blindly trusted a stranger and beliveed on a message that did not even make sense) 3) greed is never good
Why is a snails shell curly?
Due to the evolutionary advantage of having a 'curly' shell instead of a straight long shell ( Like in early forms of cephalopods) the 'curly' shell much easier to transport, is stronger, and allows snails to move into small crevasses.
What are the disadvantage and the advantage of having a shell?
Advantages: 1. Safety from enemies. 2. Safety from odd whether.
Why does giraffe's have long necks?
Because there was an evolutionary advantage to having a long neck that enabled the animal to browse foliage that was out of the reach of other herbivores.
What is the evolutionary advantage depicted by a white rabbit in the snow?
Camoflauge
How do you determine the evolutionary advantage for having taste buds that determine unpleasant bitter compounds in many plant species?
I see taste buds more as like an evolutionary Benefactor, rather than an individualized enhancement to the human body. A bi-product from our wonderfull brain.
What might be the evolutionary advantage of having animal-like and plant-like characteristics in the same organism?
Being a heterotroph when high energy food stuff was available and being an autotroph when sunlight was all that could be obtained.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of having a shell or spiny skeleton for mollusks and echinoderms?
The snail can protect itself by, when threatened, retracting into its shell and therefore hiding beneath their protective shell.
What evolutionary advantage do the gluteal muscles grant humans?
They are instrumental in our ability to walk and run bipedally.
What is the advantage of having a nanny goat?
advantage is nothing... :)
What is the advantage for having argon in the atmosphere?
There is no particular advantage.
What is an advantage of having a phone?
The advantage of having a phone is that it makes communication much easier and faster.
What might be one evolutionary advantage and one disadvantage to being a specialist?
clouds are mad of fog and rain
