Adaptation is supported by Darwin's observation of local variation among tortoises in the Galapagos Islands.
In biology, an adaptation, also called an adaptive trait, is a trait with a current functional role in the life of an organism that is maintained and evolved by means of natural selection. Adaptation refers to both the current state of being adapted and to the dynamic evolutionary process that leads to the adaptation.
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Explanation:
1. derived charcter
2.adaptation
3. could be generalized to any population of organisms
4.mustations have arisen that may have altered allele frequencies
5. a description of a trait or habitat
6.birds and reptiles share a number of inherited characteristics
7.natural selection acts: phenotype
8The Three-Domain:prokaryothes
9 Many possible genotypes, producing many possible phenotypes
10. whether the mutation makes some lizards more fit
11.Genetic equilibrium
12. founders arrived
13.common ancestry
