Adaptive Features (CIE IGCSE Biology)
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Adaptations & Fitness
- Adaptive features are the inherited functional features of an organism that increase its fitness
- Fitness is the probability of an organism surviving and reproducing in the environment in which it is found
- You should be able to interpret images or other information about a species in order to describe its adaptive features, for example:
A typical question here might be to explain how the leaf area and distribution and density of stomata help different species of plant survive in their different habitats
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