| adaptive radiation |
The development of a variety of species from a single ancestral form; occurs when a new habitat becomes available to a population. Evolutionary pattern of divergence of a great many taxa from a common ancestral species as a result of novel adaptations or a recent mass extinction. ...
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| adaptor |
A fitting that unites different types of pipe together, eg ABS to cast iron pipe.
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| adaptation |
Changes in an organism's structure or habits that allow it to adjust to its surroundings.
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| adaptation |
To adjust to new conditions.
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| adaptive radiation |
Evolutionary divergence of members of a single phylogenetic line into a variety of different adaptive forms; usually the taxa differ in the use of resources or habitats, and have diverged over a relatively short interval of geologic time. The term evolutionary radiation describes a pattern of rapid diversification without assuming that the differences are adaptive.
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