Answer:
adaptations; anything ( food storage, movement, thermoregulation)
Explanation:
Characteristics that animals inherit to help them survive in their environment are called adaptations.
Along with water conservation, animals also have unique characteristics for food storage, movement, etc; (anything that is a regulatory thing seems to fit here).
The process is called Transduction
The leading strand is the strand of nascent DNA which is being synthesized in the same direction as the growing replication fork. A polymerase "reads" the leading strand template and adds complementary nucleotides to the nascent leading strand on a continuous basis.