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Adaptive radiation is a process in which organisms diversify rapidly from an ancestral species into a multitude of new forms, particularly when a change in the environment makes new resources available, creates new challenges, or opens new environmental niches.
Potassium, carbon, sulfur, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, calcium, magnesium, sodium, phosphorus, iron, zinc, silicon, fluorine, boron, cobalt, manganese, chromium, and some others
Viruses reproduce by inserting their genetic code into the genetic code of a cell, from there, an active virus will copy itself over and over until that cell bursts, where the new viruses can repeat the process. Another type of virus inserts itself into the genetic code, but does not actively reproduce. It sits and waits for the cell to reproduce for it, by splitting in the way cells do.