How did plants and animals acquire seasonal adaptations?
a. An individuals inheritance influences its ability to survive and produce offspring in any particular physical and biological environment. b. The environment selects individual organisms based on their inherited adaptations. c. The environment shapes individuals, but rarely alters the inheritance of their offspring. d. In general, seasonal changes favor plants and animals that happened to have traits that provide survival advantages when the environment changes. e. The diversity of offspring insures that some individuals are genetically endowed to survive change. f. The ability to survive a changing environment also provides survival traits for plants and animals that are dispersed into new environments, wetter, drier, hotter, colder, nutrient poor, or whatever.
