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      • [countable] a film, television drama or play that is based on a particular book or play but has been changed to suit the new medium a screen adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ Topics Film and theatre c1 Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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  2. [uncountable, countable] adaptation (of something) (to something) (biology) the process of change by which a species becomes better suited to its environment. the adaptation of desert species to the hot conditions; Adaptations in plants occur over thousands of years.

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  3. Dec 14, 2023 · Mitigation and adaptation are the two major prongs of climate action: mitigation to limit the warming our planet will experience, and adaptation to help people adjust to the effects of climate change.

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    Out of all the different types of adaptations, physiological adaptations display a wealth of diversity, functions, and significance in almost all forms of life on this planet. So, when asked what is physiological adaptation, it can be defined as “a set of ongoing types of intracellular, biochemical and metabolic adjustments inside an organism’s bod...

    There are basically 3 types of adaptations namelystructural adaptations, behavioral adaptations, and physiological adaptations.

    There are many conflicts of opinions on its nature if it’s inheritable or not. Any ability of an organism that is at a cellular level is meant to be guided by the genetic make-up of the organism. Now since physiological adaptation is a display of cellular and metabolic changes, it should be genetically defined and hence inheritable from one generat...

    What is the role of physiological adaptations in organisms and in the environment?Some of them are as follows: 1. Physiological adaptations aid the survival of organisms in their ecological niches. 2. Physiological adaptations aid normal growth and development. 3. Physiological adaptations aid the regulation of body temperature, pressure, ionic bal...

    Hedrich R., Neher E. (2018) Venus Flytrap: How an Excitable, Carnivorous Plant Works. Trends in Plant Science, 23(3): 220-234 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2017.12.004
    Griffith M., Ala P., Yang D.S.C., Hon W.C., Moffatt B.A. (1992) Antifreeze Protein Produced Endogenously in Winter Rye Leaves. Plant Physiology, 100(2): 593–596. doi: 10.1104/pp.100.2.593
    Ievinsh G. (2006) Biological basis of biological diversity: physiological adaptations of plants to heterogeneous habitats along a sea coast. Biology 710: 53–79 Corpus ID: 54748771
    Zheng R., Wu S., Ma N.,Sun C. (2018) Genetic and Physiological Adaptations of Marine Bacterium Pseudomonas stutzeri273 to Mercury Stress. Frontiers in Microbiology, 9(682) doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.0...
  4. 1 [countable] a movie, play, or book that is based on a particular piece of work but that has been changed for a new situation a screen adaptation of Shakespeare's “Macbeth”

  5. Adaptation refers to a wide range of measures to reduce vulnerability to climate change impacts, from planting crop varieties that are more resistant to drought to enhancing climate information and early warning systems to building stronger defences against floods.

  6. Adaptation, in biology, the process by which a species becomes fitted to its environment; it is the result of natural selection’s acting upon heritable variation over several generations. Organisms are adapted to their environments in a variety of ways, such as in their structure, physiology, and genetics.

  7. An adaptation is a heritable trait that has evolved through natural selection. Adaptation is closely related to biological fitness, which governs the rate of evolution as measured by change in …