1. Adaptations of Animals
What is an adaptation?
Any heritable characteristic of an organism that improves its ability to survive and reproduce in its environment.
Bird Dropping Spider

2. Adaptations of Animals
What is this animal?

3. Adaptations of Animals
What are these animals?
How have they adapted to increase their chances of survival?

4. Adaptations of Animals
Is this what I think it is?
Orchid

5. Gestation Periods How is the gestation period an adaptation?
Time from conception to birth
Humans ?
Mouse
(21 days)
Dog
(61 days)
Whale
( 1 year)
Elephant
( 20 months)
How is the gestation period an adaptation?

6. Weaning from the mother
Time it takes to walk and be refused breast milk
Walking
Human (12 months)
Horse (10 minutes)
Bear (3 months)
Adaptations

7. What Adaptations do these Animals have that Makes Life Easier in their habitats?
Swamp
Water is acidic and lacks oxygen
Dense vegetation

8. Desert Hot in the day cool at night Limited water
Very little vegetation

9. Tundra
Cold year round
A lot of snow
Limited food
Little vegetation

10. Rainforest Heavy rainfall Hot and humid
Very little vegetation on the ground
Dense, tall trees

11. Embryonic Development
The stages of growth from
0 – 8 weeks
How can these embryos
Be considered evidence that we all came from a common ancestor?
What do you notice about these embryos?

12. DNA The universal Code for all life Code made up of Base Pairs Adenine
Thymine
Guanine
Cytosine

13. Pairing rules
In DNA which bases pair together
A – ?
G – ?

14. Genes Genes are sections of DNA that code for a trait
Less than 1% of all DNA
More than 99% codes for nothing