One of the oldest arguments in the history of psychology is the Nature vs Nurture debate. Each of these sides have good points that it's really hard to decide whether a person's development is predisposed in his DNA, or a majority of it is influenced by this life experiences and his environment.
A it can be lost during an organisms lifetime
Food - increase in height
Predators - fast reproduction, fast in general
Heat/lack of water - Cam photosynthesis, storage of water
Predator/prey arms war - sensors along side to detect prey, sense of smell, etc
<span>living things ................</span>
The answer is wavelength. It is the distance between corresponding points of two consecutive waves (corresponding points are particles or points in the same phase, meaning the points have completed identical fractions of their periodic motion. In a transverse wave it is the distance between two successful crests or troughs while in a longitudinal wave is the distance between two successful compressions or rarefactions.