Populations evolve, individuals do not. It is incorrect to say that individuals adapt to their environment because adaptation occurs as a result of random mutations. Changes in the individual during its lifetime, such as phenotypic plasticity, is not adaptation.
<span>The answer is D. The living things in a biological community are called biotic components. Living things incorporate plants, creatures, microscopic organisms, parasites and that's only the tip of the iceberg. The non living parts of an environment are called abiotic elements. In a biological community some abiotic variables are daylight, temperature environmental gasses water and soil.</span>