Combined Science GCSE
Adaptation
What Adaptation means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definitions of Adaptation
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Reference: AQA
An inherited feature that increases an organism's chance of survival and reproduction in its normal habitat.
An inherited feature that increases an organism's chance of survival and reproduction in its habitat.
A feature that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its habitat.
A structural feature that increases efficiency for the cell's job.
Topics that use Adaptation
- Adaptations (AQA GCSE)
- Cell specialisation (AQA GCSE)
- Communities (AQA GCSE)
- Key ideas (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Behavioural adaptation
- Community
- Ecosystem
- Interdependence
- Population
- Structural adaptation
- Abiotic
- Action at a distance
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