Adaptations

Adaptations Characteristics that give an organism a better chance of survival. Special traits that help living organisms survive in a particular environment.

What is Fitness? A measure how successful a trait is through contribution to the next generation

Why Adaptations? To suit their habitat For protection For attack For feeding For movement

Types of Adaptions Structural Behavioral Physiological

Camouflage Have you ever wondered why animals have spots, strips, or certain colors? Sometimes an animal’s colors can be a difference between life and death. Animals use their colors to blend into the environment.

Find the critters! See if you can find the camouflaged animals in these pictures. The animals you are looking for are a deer, frog, and quail. Quail

Look closely to find this animal! Deer!

Can you see the frog?

Mimicry Animals may also try to look like another animals. Which snake is poisonous? Animals may also try to look like another animals. This is called Mimicry, where an animal tries to mimic or copy another Example: Non poisonous snakes will rattle their tale and flatten their head to look poisonous to a predator. Example: Monarch Butterfly

Antimicrobial Resistance Species of bacteria that originally were killed by penicillin and other antibiotics have developed drug resistance