LIFE SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -adaptation: Any heritable characteristic of an organism that improves its ability to survive and reproduce in its environment. Also used to describe the process of genetic change within a population, as influenced by natural selection.

Detailed explanation-2: -An inherited characteristic that allows an individual organism to survive and reproduce (either sexually or asexually) is called an adaptation.

Detailed explanation-3: -Heredity is a process in which organisms acquire characteristics from their parents. These characteristics are called traits.

Detailed explanation-4: -The ability of an individual to survive and reproduce in its specific environment is fitness. Darwin proposed that fitness is the result of adaptations. An adaptation is any inherited characteristic that increases an organism’s chance of survival.