BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Gamete, Macroevolution, Microevolution
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One central tenant of biology is biodiversity, composed of evolutionary descended animals and are diverse partly as consequence of living in a particular environment composed of an abiotic and biotic realm. Organisms respond to their environment over many generations, in an evolutionary response, otherwise known as the origins of adaptation. The kudu in the serengeti for example, would live in a dry, grassy environment but must also face the fact of predators, competing species, and social groups. Their response to this from ecological response is the variation in population size over different seasons, within an evolutionary response is the ability to digest tough, drought-resistant food. An ecological response underlies the processes which an organism responds to their environment, and underscores the nature of adaptation. The theory of evolution can be thought of as an adaptation of a trait, and the process of adaptation.
