Adaptive Features
Biology: Cambridge International GCSE Supplement, topic 18.2.1
Adaptive Features
Adaptive features are inherited features that help an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment.
Increased fitness
- We say that adaptive features increase an organism's fitness to its environment.
What is fitness?
- Fitness is the probability of an organism surviving and reproducing in the environment in which it is found.
Test yourself on Adaptive Features
Which of these describes adaptive features?
How is this Arctic hare well adapted to its environment?