AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Camouflage, also called cryptic coloration, is a defense mechanism or tactic that organisms use to disguise their appearance, usually to blend in with their surroundings. Organisms use camouflage to mask their location, identity, and movement.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mimicry means that one species of animal resembles another species closely enough to deceive predators. To evolve, the mimicked species must have warning coloration, because appearing to be bitter-tasting or dangerous gives natural selection something to work on.

Detailed explanation-3: -Some animals are capable of changing their colors with varying degrees of transformation. This may be a very gradual (shedding of fur or feathers) seasonal camouflage, occurring only twice a year. In other animals more rapid changes may be a form of active camouflage, or of signalling.

Detailed explanation-4: -Camoflauge is when a species can change their colors or patterns to match its environment to blend in, like a chameleon! And mimicry is when a harmless creature makes itself look dangerous. They “mimic” a more dangerous species and it makes other animals afraid to eat them. For example, think of a puffer fish!