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Mo4-L6a: What is Variation in Adaptation? Mo4-L6b: What are the Types of Adaptation?

Key Concept Mo4-L6b What are the Types of Adaptation?

What is Variation in Adaptation?
KEY CONCEPTS:
How does a variation become an adaptation? 1. What are some ways adaptations help species
survive their own environments?

Vocabulary A-Z

Let us learn some vocabulary

selective breeding

the selection and breeding of organisms for desired
traits.

camouflage
an adaptation that enables a species to blend in with
its environment.

SUMMARY

What is Variation in Adaptation?

Variations in populations occur because of
mutations. Variations can lead to
adaptations.

Through natural selection, a variation that
helps organisms survive and reproduce
eventually is inherited by the entire
population.

mimicry
an adaption in which one species looks like another
species

Eastern Coral Snake Scarlet King Snake
(venomous ) (non-venomous )

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