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Adaptation allows organisms to better suit their environments and increase chances of survival. It involves changes in structure or function that help organisms live successfully in their habitat. Examples include animals adapting to eat less common foods to reduce competition, or migrating to climates that support survival during certain seasons. Over generations, natural selection favors individuals with traits advantageous in their local environments, driving biological evolution as populations adapt.

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Adaptation allows organisms to better suit their environments and increase chances of survival. It involves changes in structure or function that help organisms live successfully in their habitat. Examples include animals adapting to eat less common foods to reduce competition, or migrating to climates that support survival during certain seasons. Over generations, natural selection favors individuals with traits advantageous in their local environments, driving biological evolution as populations adapt.

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Need to Survive

One fascinating occurrence for the survival a species is the concept of adaptation tackle
in the film entitled, “Life- Race against Time.”

To survive and reproduce, all living organisms must adjust to conditions imposed on
them by their environments. An organism's environment includes everything impinging upon it,
as well as everything that is affected by that organism. Conformity between an organism and its
environment constitutes what biologists call adaptation.

Adaptation, by definition, is any change in the structure or functioning of an organism


that makes it better suited to its environment. Adaptation, in essence, is a boon that every
organism in nature is gifted with. It is because of their ability to adapt to change, that living
beings can survive in diverse kinds of environment. Animals and plants have adapted themselves
to their habitat and have therefore been able to survive. Adaptation is the ability of a living being
to adapt to its environment by changing its function or behavior.

A commonly seen animal adaptation is that animals have adapted to eating foods that
other animals do not. The animals living in the same habitat compete for food. But the adaptation
of eating a less commonly eaten food lessens this competition and strikes a balance in nature. An
interesting form of animal adaptation is hibernation that is a state of inactivity characterized by
low metabolic rate. Migration is another form of adaptation typically seen in birds, which, in
some months of a year, migrate to regions with climatic conditions conducive to their survival.

Adaptation, a change in the living organisms that helps them live successfully in the
environment is also their savior.

Biological evolution refers to the cumulative changes that occur in a population over
time. These changes are produced at the genetic level as organisms' genes mutate and/or
recombine in different ways during reproduction and are passed on to future generations.
Sometimes, individuals inherit new characteristics that give them a survival and reproductive
advantage in their local environments; these characteristics tend to increase in frequency in the
population, while those that are disadvantageous decrease in frequency. This process of
differential survival and reproduction is known as natural selection. Non-genetic changes that
occur during an organism's life span, such as increases in muscle mass due to exercise and diet,
cannot be passed on to the next generation and are not examples of evolution.

In the process of natural selection, individuals in a population who are well-adapted to a


particular set of environmental conditions have an advantage over those who are not so well
adapted. These individuals pass their genes and advantageous traits to their offspring, giving the
offspring the same advantages. Generation after generation, natural selection acts upon each
structure within an organ. Each tiny change in a structure is dependent upon changes in all the
other structures. In this way, individual parts of a system evolve in unison to be both structurally
and functionally compatible. Eventually, over thousands and sometimes millions of years, the
small improvements add up -- the simple, systematic process has produced an almost
unfathomably complex organ. Recently, scientists have found clues to the evolutionary pasts of
some of the most complex organs, helping to clarify how this process works.

To adapt and evolve are only two of the many strategies to lengthen the existing of a
species. Each kind has its own style to prevent the foreseen eradication brought about by the
nature.

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