Structural, behavioural and functional adaptations
What Structural, behavioural and functional adaptations means in Biology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Adaptations may be structural, such as a camel's hump storing fat, behavioural, such as migration, or functional, such as producing venom.
Structural adaptations are body features, behavioural adaptations are actions, and functional adaptations are internal processes.
Topics that use Structural, behavioural and functional adaptations
- Adaptations (AQA GCSE)
- Communities (AQA GCSE)
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