BIOLOGY 1114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Crypsis, Natural Selection

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOLOGY 1114
• Professor: All

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Exam should be posted by wednesday: he thinks this is the plan. But you never know: can look at the exam in lab. Adaptions (n): specialized features that enhance itness: feed specializations, crypsis (camoulage, mate attraction or competition. Adaption (v): process by which features that enhance itness are ixed in a population or species. Adaptions must: improve itness such that organisms with the trait have higher itness than those without (all other things being equal, show a correlation between the presence of the feature and the hypothesized pressure. True or false: adaptations should be the result of evolution by natural selections: true according to the q. True or false: natural selection is the only known explanation for adaption: true, dr. q is giving full credit for either answer. Behaviors can be adaptions, just fyi: learned behaviors are not adaptions.