he is known for his discovery of natural selection. he discovered this while studying the gallapagos island's unique animals.
behavioral adaptation
a behavioral adaptation is an adaptaton that an organism does that gives it an advantage in a specific envoirnment. for example the fox burrows in the ground for shelter.
heredity
heredity is the passing of traits from parents to offspring
genetics
genetics is the study of heredity.
natural selection
natural selection is the process where genes become more common or less common. in the video you see that natural selection occured on the finches when droughts and floods occured.
physical adaptation
a physical adaptation is an adaptation that an organism has that gives it an advantage in a specific envoirnment. for example the giraffes neck allows it to eat leaves off of tall trees.
adaptation
an adaptation is a mutation that gives an animal an advantage in a specifc envoirnment. there are two types of adaptation behavioral and physical.
mutation
a mutation occurs when the DNA's bases do not match up correctly. a mutation can be helpful harmful or have no affect.
dominant and recessive
a dominant trait is represented by an uppercase letter while a recessive trait is represented by a lower case letter. you only need one uppercase letter for the dominant trait to be seen but you need two lower case letters for the recessive trait to be seen.
