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Plasticity
-is an organism's ability to change its phenotype (observable traits) in response to environmental conditions.
Example of a study to determine if the organism has plasticity:
Natural Selection
Survival of the "Good Enough" vs Survival of the Fittest Natural selection is depicted as survival of the fittest, however, this implies that only the fastest, strongest, and most superior reproductive systems will carry on their genes/survive. For example in this boxing match Mr. "Fittest" would always win, this is not the case in natural selection. The term "fittest" can be misleading and depict bad odds for the "good enough" organisms. The "good enough" organism just has to be better than the organisms around them and survive long enough to reproduce. For example if a tiger were to chase after these organisms the good enough organisms just has to out run another organism or hide better than another organism. See picture below. Mr. "Good Enough" survived and survived many for occasion identical to this one and was able to reproduce and pass on his "good enough" genes.
I really like how to the point your definition is. Makes it very clear and easy to digest a topic that can be hard to understand. Your picture helps back up your definition very well, but can be a little hard to see.
ReplyDeleteI love how you simplified the description of plasticity, it really makes it easy to understand. I also like how in your drawing it shows it after time, plasticity wouldn't happen right away since the organism would have to adapt to the environment which could take time.
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