BIOL 1902 Lecture Notes - Froghopper, Canada Goose, Geometer Moth
16 May 2012
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Constant need for naturalists -> so many jobs. Features or traits that offer plants/animals an advantage. Can be physical features (turtle shells, antlers on moose) Can be behavioural features ( ocking: migration of crows) Features that allow a species to pass on their genes. Plants - in detail, same as animals in ways of surviving (eat, mate, etc) Animals - include mammals (birds, sh, snakes, insects) *interactions between plants and animals, animals and animals, etc* Not acts of intelligence/planned solutions, they are features that have taken thousands/ millions of years to evolve. Arise because of selective pressures on all living things (include environmental stresses such as temperature, wind, etc and pressures that arise from other animals/plants such as competition for food, sunlight, pressure from predators, potential mates and offspring) In nature if you are not equipped with survival traits, you are in danger. Genetic survival: key to life -> it is immortality.
