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    This document discusses plant and human adaptations. It defines adaptation as physical or behavioral traits that help organisms survive in their environment. There are two types of adaptations: structural adaptations involving physical features, and behavioral adaptations affecting behaviors. The document also discusses camouflage as an adaptive trait. In humans, the five senses and their sensory organs are adaptations. Plants have adaptations like tropisms - growth responses to stimuli like light (phototropism), gravity (geotropism), and water (hydrotropism). Sensory adaptation in humans involves diminished sensitivity to constant stimuli over time.

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    LEADERS INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE

    Name…………………………………… Subject: Science MYP 2 Date………………….

    Unit 2: Evolution & Genes

     What’s adaptation?
    Adaptation: is the physical or behavioral characteristic of an organism that
    helps an organism to survive better in the surrounding environment.”

     Types of Adaptation:

    1. Structural Adaptations: 2. Behavioural Adaptations:

    These involve the physical features of This is the change that affects the
    an organism that help them to survive in behavior of an organism. The ways a
    the environment. particular organism behaves to survive
    in its natural habitat.

     Camouflage: is an adaptation that helps an organism blend in with the


    surroundings so that it is not noticeable. It is an Adaptation that protects
    the animals from their predators.

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     Adaptation in Humans:
     Humans have five basic senses (5 Senses): The sensing organs associated
    with each sense send information to the brain to help us understand and
    perceive the world around us.

     Senses and Sense Organs:

     Sense Organs and their corresponding stimulus:

    Sense organs Stimulus

    Skin Touch, temperature

    Tongue Chemicals (in food and drink, for example)

    Nose Chemicals (in the air, for example)

    Eye Light

    Ear Sound

     Stimulus – Response Theory:

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     The changes in the environmental conditions to which the organisms


    respond to, are known as “stimuli”.

     Every living organism responds when an external stimulus act on it.

     In Stimulus–Response (S–R) theories, a response of an organism (when it


    is performing some action) is the outcome of stimulation at a preceding
    moment.

     Sensory adaptation:

     Is the diminished sensitivity to a stimulus because of constant


    exposure to that stimulus.

     Therefore, if that stimulus remains unchanged in the environment, the


    result is a lack of attention to that particular stimulus.

     Plant Adaptation:

     Tropism:

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     In order to survive, plants require light and water for photosynthesis.

     Plant tropisms are mechanisms by which plants adapt to


    environmental changes to help ensure they grow towards adequate
    sources of light and water.

     A tropism is a growth toward or away from a stimulus.

     There are two main types of tropisms:

    1. Positive tropisms – the plant grows towards the stimulus.

    2. Negative tropisms – the plant grows away from the stimulus.

    a. Phototropism: is the growth of the parts of plants in response to Light.

    In the plant stem, responses to light are In the plant root, responses to light are
    known as a positive phototropism, which known as a negative phototropism, which
    means the stem grows towards the light. means the root grows away from the light.

    a. Geotropism (Gravitropism): is the growth of the parts of plants in


    response to Gravity.

    When a root grows in the direction of the When the stem grows against the force

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    force of gravity, this is known as a of gravity, this is known as a “negative


    “positive geotropism” geotropism”

    b. Hydrotropism: is the growth of the parts of plants in response to Water.

    In this type of movement, roots show the positive hydrotropism, as they move and
    grow towards the water.

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