AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Leaves with burgundy or purple colors are common; they increase the amount of sunlight a plant can absorb. Other plants, like orchids, bromeliads and ferns, grow as epiphytes high up in the canopy where there is more sunlight.

Detailed explanation-2: -The color of an organism is a structural adaptation that helps it survive. In nature, plants and animals use color and patterns in different ways.

Detailed explanation-3: -Spines or hairs shade plants and break up drying winds across the leaf/stem surface. The roots of desert plants are also adapted to help them survive. Some plants have shallow, widespread roots to absorb a maximum of rainfall moisture. Others have deep taproots to get water that is deep underground.

Detailed explanation-4: -There are three types of adaptation-structural adaptation, behavioural adaptation, and physiological adaptation.

Detailed explanation-5: -Examples include the long necks of giraffes for feeding in the tops of trees, the streamlined bodies of aquatic fish and mammals, the light bones of flying birds and mammals, and the long daggerlike canine teeth of carnivores. All biologists agree that organismal traits commonly reflect adaptations.