Question

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Match these terms to the correct definition. Answers are used more than once. A) adaptation B) acclimation 54. There was a phenotypic difference between marsh plants that grow on the sea side and those which grow in a marsh. 55. Over time, the genome of the horse has developed to change the animal from having five toes to having one toe. 56. There was a change in the hemoglobin gene that allows heterozygotes to be resistant to malaria. 57. There was a transition which caused humans to have blue eyes. 58. A shift in color of moths in England in a population that naturally has two color variants in the same species.

Answer 1

54. The answer to the question is acclimation as it is the response to the change in environment. The acclimation process is temporary and reversible and if they are interchanged with their position of growing they will behave accordingly.

55. It is an adaptation process as it is a both physical and chemical change in one specific direction and it is irreversible.

56.This is an adaptation process as it is a chemical change whereas acclimation is a physical change.

57. It is an adaptation process as the change of eye colour is linked with gene and it is a chemical change.

58. It is an adaptation process as it is linked with genes factor.