Natural selection leads to adaptations to in an organism's environment. View Available Hint(s) Hint 1.opened hint Consider the features of the environment that affect organisms' existence. Natural selection leads to adaptations to in an organism's environment. nonliving factors such as temperature and chemicals other living organisms abiotic and biotic factors water for aquatic organisms and the atmosphere for terrestrial organisms

abiotic and biotic factors

Explanation:

According to the evolutionary theory proposed by Darwin, natural selection can be defined as the mechanism by which evolution occurs (i.e., the mechanism by which species change over time). An organism´s environment is comprised of abiotic (e.g., temperature, light, water, etc) and biotic (e.g., microbes, food availability, etc) factors. Adaptations refer to the phenotypic traits that increase the chance of survival and reproduction of an organism in its environment. Organisms better adapted to their environment are selected by natural selection to reproduce and thus perpetuate their genes across generations.

an adaptation is a change or process by which an organism takes to be better suited for its environment. for example; migration is a behavioral adaptation, this is needed because birds are not built to last extremely cold climates. there are different adaptations because there are different species needing to adjust to different things, bears don't migrate; they hibernate.

interphase

the period of cell growth when the cell synthesizes new molecules and organelles. the cell is not dividing and it constitutes the majority of the time spent in the cell cycle

prophase

changes occur in the nucleus and cytoplasm. the chromatin condenses to form structures (sister chromatids) visible with a light microscope and the mitotic spindle begins to form, but the nucleus is still in tact

prometaphase

the nuclear envelope fragments and the spindle microtubules attach to the kinetochores of the sister chromatids

metaphase

all the cell's duplicated chromosomes are lined up at an imaginary plane equidistant between the poles of the mitotic spindle

anaphase

begins when sister chromatids separate from each other and ending when a complete set of daughter chromosomes arrives at each of the two poles of the cell

telophase

the daughter nuclei form at the two poles of a cell

cytokinesis

the division of a cytoplasm to form two separate daughter cells. usually occurs during telophase during mitosis. this and mitosis make up to mitotic (m) phase of the cell cycle