Adaptation and survival
What Adaptation and survival means in Biology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Organisms survive in extreme environments because they possess adaptations matched to those conditions, and such environments support life only where suitable adaptations are present.
Genetic variation increases the chance that some offspring survive environmental change or disease.
Topics that use Adaptation and survival
- Adaptations (AQA GCSE)
- Advantages and disadvantages of sexual and asexual reproduction (biology only) (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Adaptation
- Application to unfamiliar organisms
- Asexual reproduction
- Asexual reproduction and cloning
- Behavioural adaptations
- Chemosynthesis in the absence of light
- Classification of adaptations
- Energy and time efficiency
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