Question

A species' life history is a suite of selection-driven adaptations. a. Characteristics in a life history, including the number of reproductive episodes & other events, have been selected for because they directly enhance _ b. Life history strategies require compromises (trade-offs). If a species of frog is subject to high rates of mortality due to predation, then name one adaptation that might represent a compromise.

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a)Characteristics in a life history, including the number of reproductive episodes & other events,have been selected for because they directly enhance the fitness.

Fitness here means mainly reproductive fitness as said by Darwin which states that more the number of offsprings produced more the individual is fit

So reproductive episodes in life are to gain reproductive fitness

And various other events are kind of adaptations to survive in this world in best way possible way

b) Adaptations in frog that can be named as compromise are

1.some frog show camouflage i.e skin colour changing mechanism to confuse predators

2.other oozes poisonous fluids to keep predators away

Note:- Hey you dear student you can select any of the above two adaptation machanism to write your answer as both the mechanism are good example of adaptations that can be called as compromise