Adaptation is a phenomenon that is about adjusting certain features to environmental conditions. Ie. birds are adapted to flight as they possess wings, very efficient lungs etc. or tropical plants are adapted to high temperature and humidity as they modified their photosynthesis process. but if some creature is adapted to the specific habitat or conditions, it is hard for it to manage in another habitat/different conditions. ie. birds are fast in the air but on the ground they are quite weak and prone to predators' attacks.
Species are diverse because there are so many and they are all different. Each species is biologically diverse from another. Biodiversity leads to adaptations and natural selection.
The lack of access to the healthy food has caused the growth of Sebastian to slow down. In the case healthy food is provided to him, he can grow into the size he was genetically suited to. This process is known as the canalization. Canalization term is used as the measure of the ability of any given genotype to result in the same phenotype in-spite of the environmental variability.
Just like in humans, radioactive material can damage plant tissues as well as inhibit growth. mutations are possible due to damage caused to the DNA. radioactive material in soil can prevent nutrient from being taken in by plants, causing it to be infertile.
Sister chromatids are two identical copies of Chromosome that is formed by the replication of a single chromosome.
This copies are formed during mitosis. Later on, these two sisters chromatids will grown into two different Cells
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