Question
(a) What is adaptation? (b) What are the relations between adaptation and evolution?
Answer
(a) Adaptation is a process of modification in living organisms that helps them to adjust to their environment and increase their chances of survival and reproduction.
(b) Adaptation is a process that allows organisms to become better suited to their environment over time. Evolution is the process of gradual change in the inherited traits of populations of organisms over successive generations. Adaptation and evolution are closely related because adaptation is one of the mechanisms by which evolution occurs. Natural selection, a key mechanism of evolution, acts on variations in traits that confer advantages or disadvantages to individuals in a particular environment, and adaptation can be seen as a result of this process.
