Extinction is a natural process that may be caused by natural selection, shortage of food or natural calamities. Hunting, deforestation, pollution, the conversion of uncultivated areas into pastures, the illicit trade of wild animals as well as climatic changes have made life more difficult for many animals.
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Non-Mendelian traits are traits that are not passed down with dominant and recessive alleles from one gene.
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A, because a study showing that people tend to perceive GMO labeled foods as bad reinforces the reason given that labels reinforce stigmas about said products.
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D) The porcupine is showing a physical characteristic adaptation and the opossum is showing a behavioral adaptation.
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Adaptation, which refers to the ability of an organism to adjust to changes in their external environment in order to survive, is of different types namely: physical/structural, behavioral etc.
- A physical or structural adaptation is a possessed physical characteristics/traits of an organism that enables it adapt.
- A behavioral adaptation is an organisms change in behavioral pattern or responses made to changes in the environment.
According to this question;
- A porcupine is said to have quills on its back which helps protect it from predators. This shows an example of STRUCTURAL or PHYSICAL ADAPTATION, which is the QUILLS it possesses.
- An opossum is said to pretend to be dead and become stiff when threatened. This is an example of BEHAVIORAL ADAPTATION because the opossum responds behaviorally to being threatened.
