As a Personal Selection Factor, Adaptation Is Seen as the Degree

question 41

Essay

As a personal selection factor, adaptation is seen as the degree to which consumers continue to notice a stimulus over time. Five factors can lead to adaptation. List and briefly describe the connection with adaptation.

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Definitions:

X Chromosome

One of the two types of sex chromosomes, found in both males and females, that carries genes responsible for the expression of many traits and conditions.

Recessive Trait

A genetic trait that is expressed in the phenotype only when two copies of the recessive allele are present, one from each parent.

Codominance

A genetic situation in which two alleles of a gene contribute to the phenotype of the organism in separate, distinctly observable ways.

Dominant Traits

Genetic characteristics that are expressed in an organism even when only one copy of the gene is present.